Author Ingrid Rojas Contreas was born and grew up in Bogota, Colombia, and has since moved to San Francisco, California. She finds that Spanish is the language that is inside her mind, while English is the language that is alive and available at her fingertips. Her short stories and essays have appeared in quite a few publications, like Electric Literature, Huffington Post, and Guernica, as well as others.
For her non-fiction work, she has gotten the Mary Tanenbaum, and the Missouri Review's Audio Miller Prize. She was a fellow at the San Francisco Writer's Grotto as well as Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
She is an ex-communist intellectual's daughter and is a psychic that comes from a line of seers. She has stated that her grandfather …show more content…
She begins feeling way too much like an encyclopedia, due to the fact that she is explaining too many things, and she gets lost. This is while she is trying to please Northerner's desire to make sure everything is pinned down. She finds it is all worth it, when she is able to imagine her grandfather's face and writes only to him and it is for him she is telling the story once again.
“Fruit of the Drunken Tree” is the first stand alone novel, which was released in the year 2018. In Bogota, the Santiago family lives in this gated community, where they are safe from all of the political problems that terrorizes the country. The protective bubble allows Chula (who is only seven years old) and Cassandra (who is Chula's older sister) to live carefree.
The threat of car bombs, assassinations is right there, outside the walls of the neighborhood, where Pablo Escobar (the drug kingpin) is still eluding authorities and captures the nation's attention.
Their mother hires a live in maid (who is named Petrona) who comes from the city's slum (that the guerrillas occupy), Chula is on a mission to understand Petrona and all her mysterious ways. Petrona's odd behavior suggest more than just some shyness. She is only a young woman and is falling apart under the strain of providing for her entire family, while at the same time, first love is pulling her in the other
For her non-fiction work, she has gotten the Mary Tanenbaum, and the Missouri Review's Audio Miller Prize. She was a fellow at the San Francisco Writer's Grotto as well as Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
She is an ex-communist intellectual's daughter and is a psychic that comes from a line of seers. She has stated that her grandfather …show more content…
She begins feeling way too much like an encyclopedia, due to the fact that she is explaining too many things, and she gets lost. This is while she is trying to please Northerner's desire to make sure everything is pinned down. She finds it is all worth it, when she is able to imagine her grandfather's face and writes only to him and it is for him she is telling the story once again.
“Fruit of the Drunken Tree” is the first stand alone novel, which was released in the year 2018. In Bogota, the Santiago family lives in this gated community, where they are safe from all of the political problems that terrorizes the country. The protective bubble allows Chula (who is only seven years old) and Cassandra (who is Chula's older sister) to live carefree.
The threat of car bombs, assassinations is right there, outside the walls of the neighborhood, where Pablo Escobar (the drug kingpin) is still eluding authorities and captures the nation's attention.
Their mother hires a live in maid (who is named Petrona) who comes from the city's slum (that the guerrillas occupy), Chula is on a mission to understand Petrona and all her mysterious ways. Petrona's odd behavior suggest more than just some shyness. She is only a young woman and is falling apart under the strain of providing for her entire family, while at the same time, first love is pulling her in the other