Dona Celeste's Samba School

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

Salvador, Bahia, 1985. Your great-aunt Celeste is seventy-nine. She founded the smallest samba school in the city, and this Carnival she means to lead it down the avenue one last time. Then, five weeks before Carnival, someone steals the school's banner, and without it Filhos da Ladeira cannot parade.

coming-of-age mysteryNew

~122–123 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 25K paths

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