The Sun on My HeadThe Sun on My Head is a collection of thirteen short stories set in Rio's largest favela, Rocinha. The collection gravitates around the childhoods and teenage years of boys who, in spite of having to deal with the anguish and difficulties inherent to their age, also struggle with the violence involved in growing up on the less favoured side of the 'Broken City'. In stories such as 'Flash Mob', a group of teenagers goes to the beach in the summer of