Lila´s flight
Lila´s Flight grew out of an interest in revealing the differences between the rural and the urban contexts in a low-to-middle-income country and the discrimination suffered by indigenous peoples. I chose to describe the life of a young girl who lives in the rural part of the country and how her life changes when she moves to the big city. The multitude of exposed electric and telephone wires overhead in many of these countries, inspired me to create a narrator who could use them as a means of transport and thus follow Lila and tell her story.
About the Book
Lila’s Flight describes the life of a teenage girl from a rural, indigenous community in Central America and how her passion for music drives her to fight discrimination and defeat adversity as a singer-activist. The narrator travels through the electric wires of Lila’s country, revealing infrastructure challenges and offering a window into the lives of Lila and her community.
“The man got out of his taxi and ran under me. He stopped. He took something out of his pocket, which I tried to read, but it was so dark that he returned it. I thrashed around inside my black cable looking for a way to get closer to the nearest streetlight. But the inside of these dirty plastic cables is always a mess. It’s filled with tangled metal threads that I need to figure out how they connect. Which one would it be? I chose the green one which had already worked before. I shook it more and more and more, and in an instant, that instant that only gives the speed of light, it reached the nearest streetlight”.
