Born in Rio

Official Website of the Award-Winning Book

CASSIA MARTINS

BOOK

An ambitious woman executive on Wall Street leaves her successful finance career behind and travels to Rio, where she learns about family secrets and comes to terms with a secret of her own. 

Born in Rio is a book and a screenplay in development

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To learn more about the screenplay 

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A colorful story of personal growth that ripens in Rio.

Martins effectively captures life in Brazil's most famous city.

Beautifully written first effort.

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THE STORY

I had the idea of writing Born in Rio when I was writing application essays for my MBA at The Wharton School of Business. When I finished the MBA in 2010, I began writing. Eventually as the plot unfolded, my own life changed, and, before I noticed, I found myself in Rio writing this story.
 

Born in Rio tells the story of a woman who goes back to her homeland after spending most of her life away. In a way my own experiences and living most of my life away from Brazil, the country where I was born, played a big role in the creation of this book which has been developed into a screenplay. 

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Cassia

Author of Born in Rio.
 

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