Join the Modern Latina Book Club as we explore Isabel Allende’s latest book The Wind Knows My Name. The book shares the story of the lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration. In the author’s notes Isabel shares where this … [Read more...] about The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende #ModernLatinaBookClub
Isabel Allende
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende #ModernLatinaBookClub
Join the Modern Latina Book Club as we begin reading The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende on 5/3/21. Synopsis: “When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant … [Read more...] about The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende #ModernLatinaBookClub
Isabel Allende Honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
by Linda Castillo On November 24, 2014, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to nineteen bold and inspiring Americans including Isabel Allende, the world renown Chilean American novelist. "From activists who fought for change to artists who explored the furthest reaches of our imagination; from scientists who kept America on the cutting edge … [Read more...] about Isabel Allende Honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom