The Man Who Could Move Clouds

"When you can’t return to your home country, there’s something very cathartic about reading someone else’s chance to do it. That was my feeling following Ingrid Rojas Contreras on her journey back to Colombia with her mother – a trip meant to wrap up some of her late grandfather’s unfinished business. Not any regular business: He was a curandero, a healer, and he comes to them in their dreams for this last request. In a fascinating exploration of magic, gender, family and memory, Rojas Contreras writes in such a gripping narrative that it’s easy to forget it’s about her real life."

"I'm revisiting Ingrid Rojas Contreras's extraordinary The Man Who Could Move Clouds, and it frequently cracks me up."