The Book of Emma Reyes - (Paperback)

This extraordinary memoir, "Memorias por correspondencia," is a harrowing account of one Colombian woman's resilient childhood defined by uprootedness and migration.

Emma Reyes was born into poverty and abandonment, surviving against all odds through her ingenuity and limitless imagination.

Despite being illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, she escaped at age nineteen and went on to establish a successful career as an artist, befriending luminaries such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, this memoir is a testament to the remarkable courage and talent of a young girl growing up with nothing.

Don't miss out on this powerful and inspiring story that has been hidden for far too long.