Violeta

Recommended by Elizabeth E. Kirk, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Services

The incomparable Isabel Allende has created another amazing character, the centenarian Violeta, who tells the story of her life in a letter to someone she loves “above all others.” She lived through the flu epidemic following World War I and through COVID, through dictatorships, poverty and wealth, love and loss. She has survived, as The New York Times put it, through “100 years of attitude.”