Paula Ramón is a Venezuelan journalist who has lived and worked in China, the United States, Brazil, and Uruguay. She is currently a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, based in Los Angeles. She has written and reported for the New York Times, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, and Piauí magazine, among other outlets.
“A Venezuelan reporter who left her home country in 2010 chronicles
the traumatic fate of her family and her broken nation…Throughout,
the author vividly portrays the unfolding tragedy shared by all
Venezuelans. The collapse of a nation told through the poignant
story of one family.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The author writes wrenchingly of her mother’s struggles to provide
for her and her siblings while their neighborhood deteriorated
around them, and catalogs Venezuela’s political troubles with rigor
and concision. It’s a fascinating and devastating account of one
family’s fate amid a national crisis.” —Publishers Weekly
“Terrific Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramon’s Motherland is a joint
study of a nation dying under authoritarianism, and a family
pulling away, leaving their aging matriarch alone in “a concrete
bunker” of a home, a hotbox when the mismanaged electrical grids
fail. Rarely are South American upheavals explained with such
intimacy.” —Chicago Tribune
“Motherland is a deeply personal account of the writer’s experience
of this precipitous descent into insecurity, poverty and despair
through that of her own, disintegrating family…an important account
of where such experiments go wrong and the lived reality of those
who occupy the laboratory.” —Latin American Review of Books
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