The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

When Ingrid Rojas Contreras wakes from a head injury with memory lost, she finds her family oddly excited. This has happened before, they tell her: when her maternal grandmother recovered from amnesia, she gained access to ‘the secrets’—supernatural abilities to talk to the dead, treat the sick and control the weather. Spurred on my her mother, Rojas Contreras retraces her indigenous Colombian roots to locate the root of their magic—and discovers a violent colonial history.