In this issue of Electra, two ‘Books of Hours' chronicle the days leading up to Brazil’s presidential runoff election that caught the attention of the entire world. The authors are Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, writer, translator, and research director at Radio Novelo, born in the United States and based in Rio de Janeiro; and Rodrigo Nunes, a university professor in Brazil who holds a PhD from the University of London, with a vast, widely cited work on philosophy and political science. In this period of political uncertainty, apprehension and uneasiness, people lived every moment with a stressful and overwhelming intensity. These journals give us two different but complementing insights into everyday life and politics at the time of the clash between Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. And then there are the people, animals, books, films, and day-to-day acts that have become long-lasting symbols with each passing day.