Oswald "Inventário de Travessias" Book Launch

What remains of us when we cross a border? What do we choose to carry? What are we permitted to take? Whether the ocean that separated our ancestors from their homeland, the winding road toward the unknown, or the invisible line we cross when changing destination, every crossing leaves traces. These traces vibrate in the continuous movement of identity formation for those who (i)migrate. Memory, inseparably linked to identity, is woven from fragments: yellowed photographs, stories shared over Sunday lunch, readings, reports, the experience of an ordinary day, the discovery of family objects. Pieces of ourselves that emerge in life's comings and goings. Even those who neither left nor arrived are affected, driven by curiosity to understand the steps of those who had the courage to move. In Inventário de Travessias, Márcia Lupia builds, through stories and microstories, bridges connecting us to the deepest feelings of displacement: from Italian heritage of the past century to contemporary migrations that reshape the world. The pages record the marks of departures and arrivals that inevitably (trans)form us.