The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Napkins love-affirming novel that bounds over

love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us

a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams

“Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you

she remembers everything and forgives no one

Equal parts an evocative coming-of-age and a cutting look at fame

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Napkins love-affirming novel that bounds overABOUT THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty first century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta Timely, provocative . . . emotionally satisfying . . . [a story about] the kindness of strangers who become family.The New York Times Book Review