As a blizzard hits New York, a sixty year old professor has a minor accident with a young, terrified, undocumented, Guatemalan woman driving her boss's car without permission. Later the girl shows up on his doorstep fearing her life because of her vicious, criminal boss. The professor enlists the aid of his apartment neighbor, a Chilean lecturer at the university in dealing with the young woman. To protect the young woman, the three end up in a bizarre escapade that takes them to upstate New York on snowy highways. During the time spent together, the tragic pasts of all three are revealed while love blossoms between the neighbors. This is far from Allende's best novel but it is still good. I saw her at a signing for this book and she spoke about having found romance as (a young looking) 75 to be the reason she included the developing love story between the 60-somethings in the story.
Isabel Allende at the Ethical Society, November 2017.
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