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“Everything the Mouth Eats” features two half-brothers traveling to a capoeira festival. Brinkley uses his descriptions of them playing capoeira to undergird how one brother, the narrator, Eric, contrasts himself with his sibling as he reflects on their shared desires, their abusive father, and how each of them has lived with that shame.

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