Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Written between 1955 and 1960, Child of the Dark is the daily journal of a writer who, as the single mother of three young children, supports her family by picking through garbage for paper and scraps to sell. They live in a cardboard and wood-scrap shack in a Brazilian slum called the favelas, where there is no plumbing, and one public cold-water spigot is the only clean water source for several hundred people. Her journal documents the lives favelados are forced to live.