Thirty Seconds Without Thinking About Fear

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Combining personal memories and reflections on his reading, Pedro Pacífico explains how books played a crucial role in shaping his identity. He traces his journey from childhood, his first steps as a reader, the process of creating his social media profile, and his relationship with family and friends. The author also details how the pressure to conform to a lifestyle that did not suit him ultimately triggered a wave of suffering and anxiety, which was later alleviated, among other things, by literature and the exercise of alterity that it provides. A natural storyteller, Pacífico intertwines accounts of how he managed to become more comfortable with his sexuality with insightful observations on some of the works he encountered along the way.

A moving and intelligent story about a long and painful process of self-acceptance, largely shaped by the author's relationship with literature.

“Thirty Seconds Without Thinking About Fear is a book of moving sincerity. With an engaging narrative, Pedro Pacífico speaks about himself while allowing us to hear a little about all of us and the world we need to change. We see a boy ashamed of his sexuality transform into a powerful man rewriting his own story. It is a courageous journey taken hand in hand with literature, that tireless “rebooter” of universes.”

— Carla Madeira, bestselling author of Tudo É Rio