Chloe Garcia Roberts at Harvard Book Store

Date: Thursday, November 7, 2025

Time: 7 p.m., EST

Where: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA

Chloe Garcia Roberts translated Homero Aridjis’s Carne de Dios: A Novel, and will celebrate the publication of the novel in English at Harvard Book Store. Through Aridjis’s lyrical prose, vividly translated by Garcia Roberts, we first journey to the mountains of Huautla de Jiménez in 1957, where María Sabina’s veladas—mushroom rituals—draw seekers from across the world forever altering the course of Sabina’s life and the world’s perception of Mexico’s Indigenous traditions. Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from Spanish and Chinese; and she is deputy editor of the Harvard Review and a lecturer of poetry at MIT. She will be joined by Brad Fox, who will talk about his latest book, Another Bone-Swapping Event.

This event is free and open to the public.

About Carne de Dios:

In the remote mountains of Oaxaca, the Beatniks have arrived.

María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec healer, spends her days in the small town of Huautla de Jiménez selling produce at the market and foraging under the new moon for the sacred mushrooms that grow near her home—her Holy Children, Carne de Dios, or Flesh of God. But her life changes forever when an amateur mycologist from New York, with a cameraman in tow, visits her to experience for himself the mushroom ceremony, or velada, he knows only from whispers in anthropological records. When he publishes an unauthorized article about his experience in LIFE Magazine 1957, the stage is set for an explosive encounter between the burgeoning international counterculture and the woman who became an unwilling icon of the psychedelic revolution.