Daytripper

Brás de Oliva Domingos moves through childhood, work, love and family in chapters set at different points in his life. Each chapter ends with a death, shifting attention from the final event to the ordinary moments that precede it.

The repeated structure lets Moon and Bá examine how a life is understood from many ages at once. The book’s emotional force comes from treating commonplace decisions as worthy of close attention.

Literary fiction with magical-realist structure, Daytripper uses mortality to illuminate relationships rather than construct a puzzle about timelines.

Warm color, confident figure work and shifts in pace distinguish the ages of Brás’s life. Visual echoes connect episodes even when chronology breaks.