The Girl Who Became The Moon

Or what would you say to your girl when she receives her first menstruation?

Menarca is marked by many original traditions such as a Rite of Passage: the moment when a girl becomes a woman.

This book, “A Menina que virou Lua” sees us tell about ancient wisdom – ancient memories, so long excised and silenced, about the powers and mysteries of inhabiting a body that bleeds.

«Ela, há pouco, muito se estranhava.
Seus ouvidos escutavam new words not spoken.
We look at eyes that we have never observed before.
Seu cheiro will also change, as it reconstitutes itself in a new time.
His voice could not fit any more, and his body could not fit any more.

It was any small thing that was a business to grow...
Um ser sem se tornar, um quase que ainda não, esse meio sem volta e sem vai, num eternal enquanto.
"O beginning of a fim that is lost from sight."