The Man Who Could Move Clouds A Memoir

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Marisol Ramirez

eAudio - 2022

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.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. 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 dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras... mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a...

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Books on Tape
Language
English
Main Authors
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Marisol Ramirez
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size316 GB
Parts10
ISBN9780593589342
Release Date7/12/2022
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size316 GB
ISBN9780593589342
Release Date7/12/2022