Paula

<p><strong>Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir autobiography epicedium perhaps even some fiction: they are all here and they are all quite wonderful.--<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>In this literary classic New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family's past.</strong></p><p>When her daughter Paula became gravely ill and fell into a coma Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende's first novel <em>The House of the Spirits</em> this powerful memoir is infused with the real the magical and the spiritual creating a haunting sad and beautiful tale. <br/></p>