Fruit of the Drunken Tree

A haunting, dreamy read,” according to Buzzfeed and “original, politically daring, and passionately written,” according to Vogue, Fruit of the Drunken Tree tells a story about violence and girlhood in Pablo Escobar’s Colombia. Colombian-American writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras joins Colombian consul Diana Carolina Páez Gamboa for a discussion moderated by KQED Arts and Culture Correspondent Chloe Veltman to explore the question of war, peace, and women’s experiences of violence. After a decades long war, can a country that has not known peace for more than fifty years imagine a peaceful future?