Book launch
RAGÁS, BECAUSE THE SEA HAS NO PLACE TO GRAB by Maria Isabel Vaz and Sónia Vaz Borges
Presentation and reading circle with Carla Fernandes, Cristina Roldão and Flávio Almada
25th July | 6pm
Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 r/c, 1170-112 Lisboa
Conversation in Portuguese
3rd floor, with stairs
Free entry
A memoir about the return of a mother and daughter to Cape Verde reveals the legacies of national liberation, a story of memory and migration and the psychic and physical landscape that colonialism created.
Ragás is a Cape Verdean Creole word for the space created between the waist and the knees when sitting: the lap. Here, it’s a place to find affection, a place to be hugged, protected and cared for, a place to reconnect and return to the memories that others carry for you when migration means both leaving and being left behind.
