The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

306 pages first pub 2022 (view editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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Ideal for the reader who longs to witness a real-life woman—after a head injury erases her past—traveling with her clairvoyant mother to dig up their curandero grandfather’s bones and, through resurrected ancestral tales, decide whether the family’s gift of the secrets is blessing or burden.

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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.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in th...

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4.21
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Moods

reflective: 82%

emotional: 72%

mysterious: 46%

informative: 34%

adventurous: 29%

challenging: 28%

inspiring: 25%

dark: 21%

hopeful: 16%

sad: 14%

funny: 11%

tense: 10%

lighthearted: 2%


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65% of readers chose medium
30% of readers chose slow
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