REVIEW: HER MOTHER’S MOTHER’S MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER, BY MARIA JOSÉ SILVEIRA, TR. ERIC M.B. BECKER (2017)

Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughter tells the history of Brazil through the eyes of a single bloodline of women, from 1500 to 2000. Each chapter focusses on one of these women (or, in a few cases, a mother-daughter pair), who run the gamut from slaves to slave-owners, revolutionaries to idle society ladies, muses to …