![]() ![]() Bowmaster is a pain the ass, but he nevertheless agrees, by inches, to help Evelyn. She filches her boss’s Lexus to go buy diapers for her charge on an icy day in Brooklyn and collides with Bowmaster’s car. ![]() ![]() Evelyn Ortega is an undocumented Guatamalan refugee that works as a domestic. Richard Bowmaster is a 60 year old human rights scholar that has recruited 62 year old Lucia Maraz, a lecturer from Chile, to his university. The narrative shifts between three main characters. In the Midst of Winter is one I read digitally and free, thanks to Net Galley and Atria Books in exchange for this honest review, but sooner or later I will have to find a hard copy to complete my shelf. These are books I will read again, and that’s a thing I don’t do much. My bookshelves may be crowded, but when I have to clear old books away to make room for new, my Allende shelf is never up for grabs. ![]() But it’s her accessibility, the way she spins her tale as though speaking to a good friend, along with her sparkling great humor and feminist spirit that keep me coming back for more. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you already know that Allende is a luminary that owns the literary lane of magical realism, and is renowned for her fictional immigration stories. ![]()
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