“We sat in gloomy silence as our taxi wound around 8,000-foot-high mountains from the southwestern city of Pasto to the airport for our one-hour flight home to Bogotá. The sun seemed too bright, the mountains too lush.”
Read an excerpt from Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence this week on Utne Reader. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. In the piece, Los Desplazados: Survive Against the Odds, Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening describe their work collecting the narratives in Throwing Stones at the Moon. To read the full excerpt, click here.
To learn more about Throwing Stones at the Moon and purchase the book on the McSweeney’s store, click here.
