Litquake Presents: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: Ingrid Rojas Contreras with Julián Lopera

For bestselling author Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amidst the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, her home was filled with her mother's fortune-telling clients, while her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer who could tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. In 2012, she returned to Colombia with her mother, to relearn her family history, trace her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, and uncover 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. Rojas Contreras discusses her new memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, with Colombian writer Julián Lopera.