Bewitched in Santa Marta
Santa Marta isn’t widely known as the second oldest colonial city in the Americas, and it certainly doesn’t look or feel like it. It’s...
A fine beast of a woman
From the small towns gripped in a tight squeeze of inescapable heat to the Andean cities trapped in a time-lapse of endless drizzle,...
Let him rest
On a cold evening in April 2014, I arrived early for a meeting. I didn’t know the neighborhood well, so I meandered through the streets...
The first chapter
Love in the Time of Cholera. When I chose that book off the bookshelf as a teenager in Philadelphia in the late 1980s, I’d never before...
Love, Cholera and Madness
Love in the Time of Cholera begins with Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s death and proceeds to recount the other characters’ histories. Before...
Echoes of solitude
A girl is scrunched up around a book underneath her duvet. Her bed sits in a sea of clutter—clothes both clean and dirty are strewn...
That guy who died
A small boy walks up to a red and yellow structure in the form of a bus stop. His grandfather stays a few feet behind him, supporting him...
Ocatvio and the witch
'We have a problem,’ warned Adriano. ‘Octavio says the mango tree is haunted.’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yes, he is convinced it is inhabited by a...