Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia ' So a boy's life

' So a boy's life begins in a winding river valley on the Polish-Russian border where time is measured by seasonal rhythms and ancient songs

he died at 37 from tuberculosis

and Mother

Since their father's untimely death

Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia ' So a boy's lifeAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milos slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever