Maria Carolina Amendolara's New Novel Examines Love and Mental Health

Brazilian author Maria Carolina Amendolara’s latest work, *Você vai ver que eu tenho razão*, blends romance and tragedy to explore the fragility of love and the neglect of mental‑health disorders. The story follows Catarina, who learns that her former partner Fernando, a creative publicist, has died after a psychotic episode, and it alternates between present investigations and past events from the 1990s.

Through non‑linear narration, the novel highlights family and societal failures in caring for those with mental illness, ethical lapses in medical practice, and the personal turmoil of grief. A passage reads, “Catarina era a pessoa que tinha ficado ao lado de Fernando em seu momento mais apavorante…”, underscoring the intimate portrayal of loss and the search for understanding.