Isabel Allende invites readers into her family

Sunday Gazette-Mail | April 6, 2008| | Copyright

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - For her new book, "The Sum of Our Days," Isabel Allende didn't have to look far for inspiration. Her big, dramatic, loving family provided the more-fantastic-than-fiction plot.

The tricky part was writing about characters who may be coming over to dinner.

"I'm writing about the people I love the most and they're all living around me," Allende says in an interview in her light-filled home overlooking the San Francisco Bay. "It's very different, because they would have to read it and find themselves in those pages."

"Days" picks up where Allende's previous memoir, "Paula," ...

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