Event Description
Motherless at 13, Vanja is determined to find her biological father. She leaves Rio for Colorado to live with her stepfather, a former guerrilla with a notorious past. Rendered in lyrical prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America and across dark decades of family and political history.
Speaker
Adriana Lisboa is the author of Symphony in White, winner of the José Saramago Prize; Hut of Fallen Persimmons; and Crow Blue, an Independent book of the year.
More Information
Read "The Search for Belonging," Krista Brune's review of Crow Blue for the Spring 2014 Berkeley Review.