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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoirdi Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. What a unique and well written memoir of the author's life. It is an homage to her grandfather Nono and her mother Mam.i. Ms. Contreras grew up in Columbia during a time of revolution and major drug cartels so there is always an undercurrent of danger. The family survives as Nono is known as a healer and Mami is a fortune teller of sorts.. Both are well respected in their "fields". Eventually Ms. Contreras immigrates with some of her family to the United States but she is still a creature of her "magical" background. A justly rewarded memoir A fascinating and well-written memoir/biography/history of the author's family in Colombia. Her maternal grandfather was a curandera, and he taught her mother some of his knowledge despite it not being women's knowledge. This caused a rift in the family. Meanwhile, the drug wars in Colombia were getting more dangerous, and her immediate family left after they received kidnapping threats against her and her sister, who were young teens at the time. Her other has high hopes that the author's own abilities can be enhanced with teaching--but the author is not very interested in the power she would have and the wielding/responsibility of it. She and her mother returned decades later, to help her aunt with the disinternment and cremation of her grandfather. They visit family, and visit places they had lived or been to when they lived there themselves. This is a very good book, it reminds me in many ways of The Yellow House (NBA NF winner 2019) in scope and themes, but it is also very very different in actual content. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to "letting the ghosts in." So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20s that left her with amnesia-an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts--the family assumes "the secrets" have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2024/03/the-man-who-could-move-clouds.html
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