![]() ![]() When I asked Petrona how she and her family stayed safe, she laughed. ![]() “I knew that there was no gate surrounding the invasiones where Petrona lived, no iron locks on the doors, no iron bars on the windows. Petrona and her family live in a poor, guerrilla-held area of the city which is unprotected from the car bombs and kidnappings which occur more frequently as the story progresses. ![]() But Petrona goes home to a very different world when she leaves the safety of working for Chula’s family. The author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras.Ĭhula lives with her sister and parents who enjoy carefree lives, aside from Chula’s father often traveling for work. Petrona and Chula develop an unlikely and heartfelt friendship despite their differences. That is until Chula’s curiosities about their new maid, Petrona, get the better of her. In a time when Pablo Escobar, infamous drug lord and head of one of the most dangerous criminal families in the world, was at the height of his power, seven year old Chula and her family enjoy relatively safe lives. Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and this is where her remarkable debut novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, takes place. ![]()
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