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About the Book: Mayas Notebook The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of Mayas Notebook is a 19year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls intoa life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save herfrom the criminal types pursuing her, Mayas Chilean gra About the Book: Mayas Notebook The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of Mayas Notebook is a 19year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls intoa life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save herfrom the criminal types pursuing her, Mayas Chilean grandmothersends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Hereshe lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speakan older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated fromthe materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which isour own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US andthat on Chiloe, the island, with the two strands of the storyunfolding at the same time. This new book is very different from Isabels previous historicalnovels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent)teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; arealistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one(Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Mayas voice is modeled onthat of Isabels teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area(San Francisco, Berkeley). About the Author: Isabel Allende Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the authorof eighteen books, including In?s of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune,and Portrait in Sepia. She has also written a collection ofstories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of childrens novels. Her bookshave been translated into more than twentyseven languages and havebecome bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inductedinto the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Isabel Allende livesin California.

About the Book: Mayas Notebook The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of Mayas Notebook is a 19year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls intoa life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save herfrom the criminal types pursuing her, Mayas Chilean gra About the Book: Mayas Notebook The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of Mayas Notebook is a 19year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley,...  Read More