In 1991 Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, went into a coma from complications from Porphyria. Allende began writing what was to be a letter to her daughter for her to read when she woke up. The plan was to let her know what went on while she was comatose. What resulted was a tale of Paula's illness, memoirs of Isabel's life including a cast of interesting family members. And tales of how the family coped with the CIA backed coup that caused the death of her cousin and Chilean President Salvador Allende and the exile of her diplomat father. Allende did her best to hold on to the hope that Paula would once again regain consciousness until the point where she had to accept the inevitable. Paula died in December of 1992.
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