Spanning 500 years of Brazilian history, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters chronicles a family of women, beginning in 1500 with the birth of Inai , daughter of a Tupiniquim warrior, and ending in 2001 with Inai 's distant descendent, Maria Flor. As each new daughter takes the place of her mother, and the mothers before her, Maria Jos Silveira's captivating, cinematic prose takes us through the formation of the country itself,...