Micheline Marcom describes her newest novel A Brief History of Yesher first since 2008s scathing and erotic The Mirror in the Wellas a literary fado referring to a style of Portuguese music that akin to the American blues is often melancholic and soulful and encapsulates the feeling of saudademeaning loosely yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irreparably lost. A Brief History of Yes tells the story of the breakup between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American