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Violence
Some
Period violence and some historical conflict
Language
Barely any
Mild language in Allende's warm literary register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic content in the multigenerational family saga tradition
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological weight of a suppressed childhood memory and what discovering it costs drives the novel's personal stakes
What this book is about
Isabel Allende's novel follows Aurora del Valle, who sets out to write her own story and reconstruct the childhood memory that haunts her. The novel connects the Daughter of Fortune universe with Allende's characteristic magical-realist Latin American family saga. Adult content including violence in the early 20th-century setting and adult romantic relationships throughout.
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