Iracema Silva (1939–2018), Vovó, lived her whole life on one painted street in Salvador, raised six children there, and made the Saturday feijoada that half the street came to.
Early life
Born two houses down from where she died. She liked to say she had travelled forty metres in seventy-nine years.
Family
She married Antônio Silva in 1958. Six children, and a front door that was never shut.
Stories about them
“She danced at every São João until she was eighty.” — her granddaughter Júlia