The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Rojas Contreras Ingrid
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Rojas Contreras Ingrid A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER - From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir…
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Rojas Contreras Ingrid
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER - From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history."--New York Times Book ReviewFor Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. "Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family's past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism...
Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets" the power to talk to the Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise.