![]() ![]() This sturdy braid of dramatic migration stories is balanced by an equally interesting present-day plot. Richard’s Brazilian wife loses a baby to SIDS, but he copes with his suffering in a way that allows further tragedy into their lives. Accused of being a sympathizer, Lucia becomes a refugee. During the Chilean military coup of 1973, Lucia’s brother is a guerrilla fighter who vanishes. After the gang comes after her family, Evelyn migrates to America without papers. Evelyn Ortega’s oldest brother quit school to join the most vicious gang in Guatemala, but winds up swinging from a bridge, covered in blood and excrement. It’s when revealing the characters’ harrowing past lives in other countries that the generous and unflagging energy that characterized Allende’s debut, “The House of the Spirits,” can most clearly be felt. That night, the three eat weed brownies and share their personal histories of loss. Richard and Lucia agree to talk to her employer on her behalf in the morning. ![]() ![]() Evelyn explains she works in the home of a violent man, Frank Leroy, and is too scared to go back to his house because she took the car without permission and is undocumented. ![]()
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