My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle dad Until the unthinkable happens—and a

Until the unthinkable happens—and a person she saves becomes the perpetrator of a horrific school shooting

a sweeping swarm of fiercely human creativity

and bitingly clever

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black

and cities continue to struggle

My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle dad Until the unthinkable happens—and aIn this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her fatherand herself. In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent