In one work of this author, an eighty-nine year old woman shocks the attendants of the central party by spitting on the floor, and in another, the sight of a blind man chewing gum destroys Anna's sense of security.  
In one work of this author, an eighty-nine year old woman shocks the attendants of the central party by spitting on the floor, and in another, the sight of a blind man chewing gum destroys Anna's sense of security.  Those stories, Happy Birthday and Love, were contained in the same collection as Preciousness and The Imitation of the Rose.  In one novel by this author, the protagonist is fleeing a hotel and stays at a farm where he meets Ermelinda and Vitoria, and in another, the protagonist is surprised to discover that her maid Janair hates her and kills and eats a cockroach living in her wardrobe.  This author of the aforementioned novel about Martim also wrote a work in which the protagonist is killed in a hit-and-run after having her fortune told by Madame Carlota and has her story written by Rodrigo S. M.  Writing about Macabea in that work, FTP, name this author of the short story collection Family Ties and the novels The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G. H., and The Hour of the Star.
In one work of this author, an eighty-nine year old woman shocks the attendants of the central party by spitting on the floor, and in another, the sight of a blind man chewing gum destroys Anna's sense of security.  
Clarice Lispector