Hurricane Diaries

“WHEN THE PIRATE Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century, Ursula Iguaran’s great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Veronica is from Puerto Rico, an island ravaged by a hurricane like none before it, and now finds herself in London. Looking back at what it is to be from a place when it has forever changed. Long ago it was swords, now it’s toilet rolls…

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