In Toni Morrison's novel "Paradise" (1998), the character Consolata was kidnapped in Brazil by an American nun and brought back to the United States to be raised in rural Oklahoma in a school for Native American girls that later comes to be called "the Convent". Decades later, Consolata tells the four young women who live with her about Piedade, a woman she remembers hearing sing when she was a child in a Brazilian slum, "who sang but never said a word". While exploring the implications of the singer's name, I stumbled on a touching but meaningless coincidence: The middle name of the great Portuguese Fado singer Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was Piedade. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 25 May 2026)