TY - BOOK AU - Allende,Isabel AU - Caistor,Nick AU - Hopkinson,Amanda TI - In the midst of winter: a novel SN - 9781501178139 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Atria Books KW - College teachers KW - Fiction KW - Women college teachers KW - Women illegal aliens KW - Human rights KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Guatemala KW - Chile KW - Romance fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "Originally published in Spain in 2017 as Más allá del invierno"--Title page verso N2 - "In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia."-- ER -