Quarto de despejo

Description:

A first-hand account of life in the streets of Sao Paulo from 1955 to 1960, details the plight of an artist, writer and single mother of three children who, while living in a hovel, supported her family by digging through the garbage for paper and scraps to sell.

subjects: Poor,  Social life and customs,  Race relations,  Blacks,  Social conditions,  Rural conditions,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Sao Paulo (Brazil),  Poverty,  Cities and towns,  Autobiography,  Brazil, biography,  Women, biography,  Poor--brazil--são paulo,  Hn290.s33 j43 2003

People: Carolina Maria de Jesus

Places: Brazil,  São Paulo (Brazil),  São Paulo