Motherland: A Memoir

Paula Ramón's memoir explores her complicated relationship with her family as Venezuela collapses into ruin, highlighting the anguish of lost relationships and the fragile concept of home.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 251 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Amazon Publishing

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela descended into a catastrophic state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón witnessed the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family witnessed their quality of life decline. Public services ceased to function. Money lost its value. Her mother could no longer afford to purchase food, which became increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramóns family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they loved. In the end, it was Ramóns mother, a widow, who remained behind, loyal to the only home she had ever known. In this heartbreaking blend of lived experience, family chronicle, and journalistic essay, Paula Ramón explores the anguish of her own relationships set against the staggering collapse of a country. Motherland is a uniquely human account about the ties that bind—and the fragile concept of home.

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela descended into a catastrophic state of economic collapse.

Reporter Paula Ramón witnessed the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family witnessed their quality of life decline.

Public services ceased to function.

Money lost its value.

Her mother could no longer afford to purchase food, which became increasingly scarce.

The once-prosperous country fell into ruin.

Like many others, Ramóns family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they loved.

In the end, it was Ramóns mother, a widow, who remained behind, loyal to the only home she had ever known.

In this heartbreaking blend of lived experience, family chronicle, and journalistic essay, Paula Ramón explores the anguish of her own relationships set against the staggering collapse of a country.

Motherland is a uniquely human account about the ties that bind—and the fragile concept of home.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 147 x 218 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781542036900