新澳彩开奖结果

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

鈥淭he night before the girl Petrona arrived, Mam谩 made three stacks with her tarot cards on her breakfast table and asked, 鈥業s the girl Petrona trustworthy?鈥

Fruit of the Drunken Tree book cover

Seven-year-old Chula lives a carefree life in her gated community in Bogot谩, but the threat of car bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations hovers just outside her walls, occasionally appearing on her TV. When her mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city鈥檚 guerrilla-occupied neighborhood, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona鈥檚 mysterious ways. As both girls鈥 families scramble to survive amid the escalating drug war, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras headshot

Born and raised in Bogot谩, Ingrid Rojas Contreras is also the author of a memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was a silver medal winner from the California Book Awards and a New York Times editor鈥檚 choice.

Because Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a beautifully written, compulsively readable account of two girls growing up in daily fear of unimaginable loss and violence.

鈥淚 remember being a young person and being completely alarmed by what was happening, and also feeling like maybe there wasn鈥檛 an adult in the room,鈥 says Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the Living Writers podcast. Listen to the whole three-question interview .

Ingrid Rojas Contreras at 新澳彩开奖结果

Join us in person or on Thursday, Oct. 31, for a reading and book-signing by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. All Living Writers events take place at 4:30 ET in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments available.

Beyond the Book

  • calls Fruit of the Drunken Tree 鈥渁 beautifully rendered novel of an Colombian childhood.鈥
  • 鈥淏ogot谩 is a fast-moving place, but the myth of the city is immured in each generation鈥檚 view of the past and even the present is up for grabs and who can tell about the future?鈥 writes Ms. Rojas Contreras in this for Guernica. 
  • 鈥淎nd this is also what I love most about being an immigrant鈥攖hat the majority culture can act like a combustible that burns and clarifies who you really are,鈥 says Ms. Rojas Contreras, in  about her approach to teaching creative writing. 
  • In this , Ms. Rojas Contreras talks about the real people and events鈥攁 kidnapping plot especially鈥攐n which Fruit of the Drunken Tree is based.

鈥淪he said, I鈥檒l pray, and I understood I had risked everything for another woman鈥檚 daughter, and nobody would do the same for me.鈥

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree