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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“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.
So what feeds the soul of feminists—and all women—today? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over our bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work yet to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.”
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“Narrator Gisela Chipe’s rendering of the text is confident and resolute yet conveys Allende’s tenderness as well as her passion. The Brazilian-born Ecuadorian–American Chipe provides a natural pronunciation of the Spanish words and names sprinkled throughout…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”
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“A bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more.”
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The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
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[Isabel] Allende is a genius.
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[Allende] executes this epistolary memoir with the same authenticity and poetry that grace her fiction. . . . Allende is a survivor worth reading and emulating.
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
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Charming and entertaining.
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A stunningly intimate memoir . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
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Allende’s vivacity and wit are in full bloom as she makes her pronouncements. . . . Her book is filled with succinct wisdom and big laughs. . . . As always, her secret weapon is honesty.
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Allende teases, tempts and titillates with mesmerizing stories.
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Paula: A Memoir
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Allende has an exciting life story to tell.
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A magician with words.
— Publishers Weekly
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books, including twelve novels that have made the New York Times bestsellers list. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than seventy-four million copies worldwide. She was born in Peru, raised in Chile, and lives in California.
About Gisela Chipe
Cindy Kay is a Chinese Thai American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a “cozy best friend.” She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.