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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. 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. So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20's 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. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable torest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains"--
A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa. Mami disfrutaba su habilidad de aparecer en dos lugares a la vez, y era capaz de expulsar al más terco de los espíritus usando apenas un vaso de agua. Rojas Contreras solía creer que este legado pertenecía solo a su madre y a su abuelo, hasta que un día, en sus veinte y viviendo en Estados Unidos, sufrió una herida en la cabeza que le provocó amnesia. Mientras recuperaba la memoria, su familia le contó que esto había sucedido antes: décadas atrás Mami había tenido una caída que también le había provocado amnesia; y cuando se recuperó, descubrió que tenía acceso a los secretos. En 2012, urgida por un sueño compartido con Mami y sus hermanas, y por la necesidad imperiosa de volver a aprender la historia familiar tras su pérdida de la memoria, Rojas Contreras decidió acompañar a su madre en un viaje a Colombia para exhumar los restos de Nono. Con la guía impredecible, testaruda y casi siempre divertida de Mami, rastrea sus orígenes indígenas y españoles, revelando la violenta historia colonial que, con el paso del tiempo, separaría a su familia mestiza en dos grupos: los que piensan que los secretos son un don y los que creen que son una maldición. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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