The Man Who Could Move Clouds
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Buy on AmazonNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • 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. “Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. 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.…
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"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."
NPR Books We Love — 2022 · apps.npr.org
"I'm revisiting Ingrid Rojas Contreras's extraordinary The Man Who Could Move Clouds, and it frequently cracks me up."
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