Later that evening, she shows up at his home unexpectedly. Although the damage is minor, the young woman panics, speeding off hysterically after taking Richard’s insurance information. He bumps into the tail end of a Lexus, driven by Evelyn Ortega, a small Mayan woman. The landlord, Richard Barmaster, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, makes an emergency run with his sick cat in a major snowstorm. Allende analyzes the behavior of each character compassionately, eventually revealing how all have actually been strengthened by the bizarre event that brought them together.Ī blizzard and a minor auto accident draw the three characters together. All three– a reclusive landlord, a stoic refugee from Chile, and the panicky illegal alien from Guatemala, -have deep traumatic scars caused by horrific events in their pasts. While the plot focuses upon these characters’ bumbling efforts to dispose of the evidence, the author is looking at their characters very closely. She protests her innocence to two sympathetic educators, who convince her to dispose of the body and the car not just because the circumstantial evidence would point to the alien, but also because of her mortal fear of the ferocious temper of her boss. Isabel Allende’s novel has the makings of a mystery: a young woman’s frozen body is discovered in the trunk of a car driven by an illegal, unlicensed alien, who is working as a nanny for a gangster. 30 Mar, 2018 in Local Events / Ted Odenwald
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