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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paula Ramón , Julia Sanches , Jennifer ShyuePublisher: Amazon Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing ISBN: 9781542036900ISBN 10: 1542036909 Pages: 251 Publication Date: 31 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews“A Venezuelan reporter who left her home country in 2010 chronicles the traumatic fate of her family and her broken nation…Throughout, the author vividly portrays the unfolding tragedy shared by all Venezuelans. The collapse of a nation told through the poignant story of one family.” —Kirkus Reviews “The author writes wrenchingly of her mother’s struggles to provide for her and her siblings while their neighborhood deteriorated around them, and catalogs Venezuela’s political troubles with rigor and concision. It’s a fascinating and devastating account of one family’s fate amid a national crisis.” —Publishers Weekly “Terrific Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramon’s Motherland is a joint study of a nation dying under authoritarianism, and a family pulling away, leaving their aging matriarch alone in “a concrete bunker” of a home, a hotbox when the mismanaged electrical grids fail. Rarely are South American upheavals explained with such intimacy.” —Chicago Tribune “A Venezuelan reporter who left her home country in 2010 chronicles the traumatic fate of her family and her broken nation…Throughout, the author vividly portrays the unfolding tragedy shared by all Venezuelans. The collapse of a nation told through the poignant story of one family.” —Kirkus Reviews “A Venezuelan reporter who left her home country in 2010 chronicles the traumatic fate of her family and her broken nation…Throughout, the author vividly portrays the unfolding tragedy shared by all Venezuelans. The collapse of a nation told through the poignant story of one family.” —Kirkus Reviews “The author writes wrenchingly of her mother’s struggles to provide for her and her siblings while their neighborhood deteriorated around them, and catalogs Venezuela’s political troubles with rigor and concision. It’s a fascinating and devastating account of one family’s fate amid a national crisis.” —Publishers Weekly “Terrific Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramon’s Motherland is a joint study of a nation dying under authoritarianism, and a family pulling away, leaving their aging matriarch alone in “a concrete bunker” of a home, a hotbox when the mismanaged electrical grids fail. Rarely are South American upheavals explained with such intimacy.” —Chicago Tribune “Motherland is a deeply personal account of the writer’s experience of this precipitous descent into insecurity, poverty and despair through that of her own, disintegrating family…an important account of where such experiments go wrong and the lived reality of those who occupy the laboratory.” —Latin American Review of Books Author InformationPaula Ramón is a Venezuelan journalist who has lived and worked in China, the United States, Brazil, and Uruguay. She is currently a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, based in Los Angeles. She has written and reported for the New York Times, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, and Piauí magazine, among other outlets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |