Carolina - A Biography - by Tom Farias

In Carolina: a biography, journalist Tom Farias presents the complex trajectory of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus. From his poor childhood, in the city of Sacramento, in Minas Gerais, through the cities where he wandered as a youth in search of work and a diagnosis and cure for a leg disease, until his arrival in São Paulo where he settled in the Canindé favela. The biography details not only his relationship with his children and the moment of his rise, due to the editorial success of the book Quarto de Eviction, but also his decline due to the lack of interest on the part of the publishing market and readers in relation to his subsequent publications, which , combined with her strong personality and Brazilian social and discriminatory barriers, led the writer to return to the same condition of poverty in which she lived most of her life.