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Hello! I'm very interested in reading Fruit of the Drunken Tree and would like to know if you originally wrote it in English or Spanish? Did you do the Spanish translation that's also listed on Goodreads? Which one would you recommend for someone who reads in both English and Spanish?

Ingrid Rojas Contreras I recommend the English version, which was the original. I wrote about my complicated relationship to English and Spanish and the writing of this novel in this essay: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...

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What is an invasión? I live in Medellín as an expat and hadn’t heard of it...oh, a friend whongrew up in Comuna 13 just Whatsapped me and said it’s like Comuna 13 that was where people moved from the countryside and squatted, building informal homes like favellas. At first I thought it was like the “pulmones” here, the green areas where creeks run, where the vegetaion is preserved. Some Venezuelans sleep there.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras Hi Gabriela, an invasión would be land in which a displaced community would do a settlement. I heard this term used in Bogotá and some of Santander, the idea being that the government is the owner of the land, and that the displaced community seeking refuge in it are "invading." I thought it's an unkind term to talk about community needs of people who have been displaced, but wanted Chula, who is middle class, to use the term without "thought."

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