Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome author and singer Ingrid Rojas Contreras for The Man Who Could Move Clouds, her riveting new memoir! Dubbed a Times Best Book of the Summer, this is one read you won't want to miss. The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer De Leon, author of Don't Ask Me Where I'm From.

This event will take place on Thursday, July 21 at 7:00pm at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition. Please note that masks will be required for all those in attendance. RSVPs, while not required, are strongly encouraged!

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About the Book

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. 

Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.

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.

Jennifer De Leon is author of the YA novel Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From (Simon & Schuster), which was a Junior Library Guild selection, and the Juniper Award winning essay collection White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing (UMass Press). Her next YA novel, Borderless, releases in 2023.