The story travels from Medellín to Manizales, from the early 1900's to the late 1980's. The story shows the growth of the family and the changes in Colombia during almost 100 years. There is old Colombia with horses and Indian porters to carry the family across the Andes mountains, and the elegant plaza with the Royal Palms planted by Don Alejandro and where serenateros come to court the daughter of the house. Children grow up and leave the Plaza, one of the sisters, a nun, her mind failing, comes back home. At the end, the plaza is a bus stop and the adobe walls of the villa are falling. Through it all Luisa, mother, sister, wife, grandmother observes changes in the church, in styles, and in the people she loves. The last half of the book consists of short stories, some humorous and some tragic, of the author's experiences including the many faces of marriage, uniquely Colombian witchcraft and apparitions. There is ultimately a picture of the violence that fi nally engulfed Colombia in kidnapping and death. The story travels from Medellín to Manizales, from the early 1900s to the late 1980s. The story shows the growth of the family and the changes in Colombia for almost 100 years. There is old Colombia with horses and Indian porters to carry the family across the Andes mountains, and the elegant plaza with the Royal Palms planted by Don Alejandro and where serenateros come to court the daughter of the house. Children grow up and leave the Plaza, one of the sisters, a nun, her mind failing, comes back home. In the end, the plaza is a bus stop and the adobe walls of the villa are falling. Through it all Luisa, mother, sister, wife, grandmother observes changes in the church, in styles, and in the people she loves. The last half of the book consists of short stories, some humorous and some tragic, of the author's experiences including the many faces of marriage, uniquely Colombian witchcraft and apparitions. There is ultimately a picture of the violence that fi nally engulfed Colombia in kidnapping and death.
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978-1-64826-513-6 (9781648265136)
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Born into a small farming community, I went to a one room country school house, all 8 grades there. Since there were no school busses to take me to junior high, as we called it, or senior high, I went to live with my grandmother in Rock Island. These advanced schools had more than one thousand students, with wardrobes and vocabulary well beyond my country ways. I then went to the Catholic women's college which teamed up with the Catholic men's college for parties. At one of these I met a handsome man from Colombia: we fell in love, or hearts melded in a love that would last 60 years. During these years, we had five children, we traveled, and we went to Colombia to live. The years in Medellin were the fertile ground for The Heart is Witness.
