Economista

At a prestigious Brazilian university, Mona knows that everything has a price. Her mother paid a bribe to get her in; her best friend, Tieta, paid her back with a devastating betrayal. Wounded and consumed by an obsessive hunger for revenge, Mona retreats into a world of paranoia and envy, seeking solace in the campus’s stray dogs and the razor-sharp gossip of the dormitories.

When a transfer student named Émilia appears, she offers Mona the chance of a new start—but friendship is an expensive pursuit. Clinging to the rumours that shape her reality, Mona must learn to distinguish between genuine devotion and the loneliness of the ‘good’ friend.

Economista is a masterful, literary excavation of the concurrence of love and corruption, and the lengths a woman will go to protect her capital.