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Powerpaola's North American debut traces the lives of young women during Columbia's violent drug cartel warfare era of the 1980's-90's."Powerpaola has a gift for expressing an entire world with a thin black line, building up textures and details that are a joy to get lost in. In Virus Tropical, her memories of a unique family life are so vividly portrayed that you feel like you are living through all the laughter, joy, tears and door-slamming right along with her. It's a treat of a book." - Sarah Glidden, author of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or LessPowerpaola's Virus Tropical uses a series of vignettes to transform the simplicity of middle-class family life into a thought-provoking narrative that would have been inconceivable prior to Colombia's sexual revolution.