My Invented Country -- Isabel Allende, Paperback Nellie Bellflower she needs a few questions

she needs a few questions answered

Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines

he keeps you looking over your shoulder

Many women were silently struggling right alongside her

My Invented Country -- Isabel Allende, Paperback Nellie Bellflower she needs a few questions"A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language." Entertainment Weekly The revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, including the homeland she lost and the one she found, and the family spirits, both living and dead, who haunt her life and work. In this wondrous and