Beautiful novel about love, female friendship and the roots of samba set in the thirties in Rio and in Hollywood. It is a story of two girls that met at the sugar plantation in North of Brazil and had a dream to perform - one of them became the first Brazilian movie star and singer in Hollywood and the other her producer and patron saint, she is the one who is telling this story, fiercely and honestly. It made me miss Rio and Brazil, I have been playing a lot of samba at home.