Paula: A Memoir

New York Times Best-Selling Author

“Beautiful and heartrending…. Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.” (Los Angeles Times)

When Isabel Allende’s daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind listeners of her first book, The House of the Spirits.