June 2025: The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

We'll meet on zoom. The zoom link will be posted closer to event date. We'll chat for 15-20 minutes to start, then get into the book. Around 3:15, we'll vote for future books, so please bring suggestions. Captioning and/or ASL interpreting can be arranged by request.

From goodreads:
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.

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