Song of Exile

"Carinha smiles with eyes wide and happy, the whole world laid out before her. She cares for nothing, squanders nothing and lives happy and wanted in a world that embraces her. This is not her story but mine. The story of a girl who doesn't know who she is. The mulatto creole who didn't belong anywhere. The one who killed her brother. A criminal, a lair, an idiot and a whore. My life, in the few words that weren't given to me. " Song of Exile is a dynamic story recording the struggles of Lorena Estéfana Maîte" Carinha" Dos Ramos, the daughter of an accountant and a World Literature professor with militant pasts, a girl with two sides of a family filled with secrets, lies and regrets. A chronicle of events leading up to her 18th birthday, this is a tale of change, of diffidence and a step forward into self-love and a definitive personal identity. This is the story of Carinha.