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LA: The Man Who Could Move Clouds at Skylight books with Lilliam Rivera

  • Skylight Books 1818 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA, 90027 United States (map)

Skylight Books presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras in conversation with Lilliam Rivera on Ingrid’s new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds.

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.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California.

Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children books including her latest science fiction novel, We Light Up the Sky. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Elle, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles.