I'm Going To Have a Little House

Lincoln, NB: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1997. First American Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Sporadic bracketting to some 7/8 pgs, else clean & bright. Softcover/NF/with trace shelfwear. Memoir, journal. More than half-century past in 1960, Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914 - 1977), African-Brazilian favela (slums) resident of Sao Paulo, published her diary… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. Covers the first year following the author's rise to fame. This title recounts her struggles with celebrity, middle-class expectations, and the racial and social tensions her success had exacerbated. It tells that the fall back into poverty is as easy as the struggle to escape it is difficult.