How to Be a Carioca

«For visitors, figuring out how to relax and fit into this languorous city can provoke anxiety. Now there is an amusing guidebook from a U.S.-born writer based in Rio that helps ease the strain. How to Be a Carioca… is as much a compendium of tongue-in-cheek observations about her adopted hometown as it is a handbook for the newcomer.»

Time

«A funny, smart guide that captures the Carioca mentality perfectly.»

Travel & Leisure

«… essential reading if you want to fit into the landscape [in Rio].»

The Financial Post

«Author of the hilarious book How to be a Carioca… Priscilla attempts to unravel the mystery of the jeito Carioca…»

Veja

«Priscilla invented a genre and the result is very maneiro… The book exposes Carioca whims through subtly accurate observations… Carioca humor at its best.»

Veja Rio

«Marvelous… A masterpiece… The best of humor.»

Jâ Soares, humorist, talk-show host, and best-selling author

«How to Be a Carioca has become a best seller among the tourists who arrive in Rio thinking they are going to encounter parrots and sombreros in profusion…»

Jornal do Brasil