Letters to my grandmother

In the most personal and delicate of her books, philosopher Djamila Ribeiro revisits her childhood and adolescence to discuss topics such as black ancestry and the challenges of raising children in a racist society. Is the story in the form of letters to your late grandmother Antônia? affectionate and loving, knowledgeable about healing herbs and a much sought-after healer. The complicity that has always existed between grandmother and granddaughter is what allows the author to recall difficult episodes, such as the loss of her father and mother, the attacks she suffered as a black woman in Brazil and the challenges of integrating academic life. Djamila also talks about romantic relationships and professional experiences, the music, reading and friendships that accompanied her in her personal construction? and the gradual realization that the memory of the struggles and achievements of black people who came before us is the strength that allows us to move forward.