For Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, magic runs in \;the \;family. Growing up in \;the \;Colombia of \;t he \;1980s and 1990s in \;a \;house where "what did you dream? " was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy a nd violence. Her maternal grandfather\, Nono\, was \;a \;renowned curandero\, \;a \;community healer gifted with \;the \;abi lity to talk to \;the \;dead\, tell \;the \;future\, treat \;the \;sick\, and \;move \;the \;clouds. As \;a& nbsp\;young girl\, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-te lling business from \;the \;stairs and waited eagerly for \;th e \;moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustom ed to "letting \;the \;ghosts in." So when Ingrid\, now living in& nbsp\;the \;U.S.\, suffered \;a \;head injury in her 20s that left her with amnesia-an accident eerily similar to \;a \;fall tha t had put her mother in \;a \;coma at \;the \;age of 8\, f rom which she woke with not just amnesia\, but \;the \;ability to see ghosts--the \;family assumes "the \;secrets" have finally been passed down to \;the \;next generation. But as Ingrid recovers he r memories\, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather\, she is consumed by \;a \;powerful urge to learn even more about her herit age than she knew before \;the \;accident. Spurred by \;a \;shared dream among Mami and her sisters\, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in \;the \;afterlife\, Ingrid joi ns her mother on \;a \;journey home to Colombia to disinter her gr andfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable\, stubborn and o ften hilarious guide\, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous an d Spanish roots\, uncovering \;the \;violent and rigid colonial na rrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those \ ;who \;believe "the \;secrets" are \;a \;gift\, and those& nbsp\;who \;are convinced they are \;a \;curse. Interweaving f amily stories more enchanting than any novel\, resurrected Colombian histo ry\, and her own deeply personal reckonings with \;the \;bounds of reality\, Rojas Contreras writes her way through \;the \;incompre hensible and into her inheritance. \;The \;result is \;a \ ;luminous testament to \;the \;power of storytelling as \;a&nb sp\;healing art and an invitation to embrace \;the \;extraordinary .
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