Maya's notebook : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, 2021Edition: First HarperVia PaperbackDescription: 469 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780063021815
- 0063021811
- Cuaderno de Maya. English
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Main Library | Fiction | ALLENDE, ISABEL | Available | coffee damage top corner 4/28/21 | 33111010463699 | ||||
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Northport Library | Fiction | ALLENDE, ISABEL | Available | 33111009830858 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Allende can spin a yarn with the grace of a poet."--Entertainment Weekly
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW DEAR READER LETTER
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits, an enthralling and suspenseful coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who must unravel the mysteries of her past in order to save herself.
Nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini--a force of nature whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after she emigrated from Chile in 1973--and Popo, an African-American astronomer and professor whose solid, comforting presence helps calm the turbulence of Maya's adolescence.
When Popo dies of cancer, Maya comes undone and turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime. When she becomes lost in the dangerous underworld of Las Vegas, Maya becomes caught in the crosshairs of deadly warring forces. Her one chance for survival is Nini, who helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile. Here, Maya tries to make sense of the past to discover the truth about her life and her family, and embarks on her greatest adventure: a journey of self-discovery and forgiveness.
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic life, and other developments.
Translated from the Spanish.