Blue Morpho

Summary In what why can fiction help us craft and share ethnographic work when life is in flux the people with whom we live also have a hard time making “rational” sense of happening to them? This about love, quandary, rebirth set against deep crisis Venezuela—money has become worthless, families are shattered, mutual trust evaporated, jobs food scarce, everyone trying make living. The creative endeavour arose during online exchanges research participants friends, re‐reading fieldnotes, surfacing poignant memories while growing up Venezuelan family twenty years ago. plot around butterfly coalesced these personal an emerging understanding natural abundance, human, fragility, metamorphosis how Venezuelans loss inequality. storyline follows Marianela, upper middle‐class woman born bred Caracas, who ends goldmine south Venezuela her three‐year daughter Alba. One day, at Brazilian border, blue warns that beloved caretaker passed away. To overcome this loss, Marianela intents finally break away from subjugation.