Growing up, I envied my friends and their warm, storybook grandmothers. Mine, vó Yolanda, was always there but always distant—until one day, before I moved away, she started telling me a story. A story of a girl, 19 years old, who packed her bags to chase a dream but never made it. A story she kept returning to, over and over, as if searching for a different ending

Isadora Alves is a researcher found storyteller who has crafted and delivered several stories in events throughout the Netherlands. Her stories often highlight all the shades of gray that exist in our relationships with ourselves, the other, and the world around us
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