Under the Borrachero Tree

This novel traces three generations of a Colombian family whose lives are shaped by art, migration, and the perpetual search for belonging. It begins in 1900 with Richard, a defiant young Colombian artist, and his wife Tita — together building a successful art business amid political turmoil, eventually carrying it north to Canada. Their son Rigo returns to Colombia in the 1950s as an engineer, and his wife Yayo juggles creativity, personal aspirations, and family life as they move between Bogotá and Canada. The third generation brings their son Ricky — into art, revolution, and professional work across multiple countries — and his wife Lee, navigating the contemporary pressures of professional and family life in the United States in the 2000s. Across a century and three countries, the novel asks what survives migration: what is carried, what is lost, what is transformed beyond recognition. Don Quixote runs as a quiet thread throughout — the idealism of people who keep tilting at windmills across generations — while the Borrachero Tree itself stands for the blend of inspiration and danger that runs through every creative life. Inspired by the author's own family history, rendered as fiction.