Benedita, the fighter from Vassouras

This sum would be enough to pay Joaquim’s debt, restore the quinta and allow him to hold on for years.

But Joaquim didn’t know how to fight. He was old, weakened, with no real luck.

He then told Benedita what he had seen in her: not a useless woman, but a fighter. A force that no one had been able to understand, because no one had ever given her the continue reading …