The Soul of a Woman
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman.
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.
As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote “with a knife between our teeth” about women’s issues. She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one’s sexuality.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a writer, feminist and philanthropist. She is one of the world's most widely read authors, with over 80 million copies of her books sold and translated into 42 languages. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed bestsellers, including The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna and Paula. She devotes much of her time to human rights causes. She has 15 honorary doctorates, has been inducted into the California Writers Hall of Fame, and is the recipient of the PEN Club of America Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolfe Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, she was named a Fellow of the National Book Awards. Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, and in 2018 she received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Letters.
Isabel Allende lives in California with her husband and their dogs.
Official website of the writer: IsabelAllende.com
Social media pages: Instagram @AllendeIsabel, Facebook.com/IsabelAllende, X @IsabelAllende.
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