Amy P. Knight

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

A story of three lives joined together by chance–and an overly unlikely adventure involving trying to dispose of a dead body, older people falling in love, digestive issues, and fear of deportation. I’m not sure I quite bought the plot of the present story, but we also got the highly engaging histories of the three characters, and that was where the book was at its best. The portraits were lovely, the lives–all three of them–difficult and sad without being overly grim.