Since publishing her first book, The House of the Spirits, in 1982, the Chilean writer Isabel Allende has written ten novels, four memoirs, and three young adult novels. She writes a lot. She has written about the distant and recent past in various locales, from sixteenth-century Chile in Inés of My Soul to Vietnam-era California in The Infinite Plan to eighteenth-century Haiti in Island Beneath the Sea. And yet her new novel, Maya’s Notebook, is her first to have a contemporary setting
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