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Jul 12, 2022 · The man in the title of this memoir was a Curandero (a folk healer, medicine man, user of herbs or hallucinogenic plants, magic and spiritualism.) He was the author's grandfather and lived near the mountains of Columbia in South America. If this sounds too far out of your comfort zone, you might want to steer clear.
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Jul 12, 2022 · Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood. "The Man Who Could Move Clouds is a testament to the richness of culture and family—as well as a call to maintain these essential elements, despite displacement and Westernization, throughout the generations. With unflinching honesty, Contreras translates the stories of her family and its curanderos—and ...
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Jul 1, 2008 · The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit is an extraordinarily moving and well-written memoir that speaks to the immigrant experience that built America. The focus is on author Lucette Lagnando's family, particularly her father, Leon. Leon was a prosperous Cairo businessman.
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- Lucette Lagnado
Jul 6, 2022 · So to complete “The Man Who Could Move Clouds” — her first memoir, following her debut novel, “Fruit of the Drunken Tree,” in 2018 — Rojas Contreras relies instead on oral history ...
Jun 26, 2019 · Alison Bechdel’s beloved graphic novel is an elaborately layered account of life and artifice, family silence and revelation, springing from her father’s suicide. He was a distant man who ...
May 4, 2021 · In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down.
- Eddie Jaku
"An eerie and introspective memoir." - Library Journal "The Man Who Could Move Clouds is a memoir like no other, mapping memory, myth, and the mysteries and magic of ancestry with stark tenderness and beauty. A dreamlike and literal excavation of the powers of inheritance, Ingrid Rojas Contreras has given us a glorious gift with these pages."
