Mistress of the Castle; Isabel Allende continues her chronicle of dysfunctional family life.

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 13, 2008 | Copyright information

THE SUM OF OUR DAYS

By Isabel Allende

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Harper. 301 pp. $26.95Thirteen years ago, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende published a memoir, Paula, in the form of a letter to a daughter who lay in a coma. The Sum of Our Days is a sequel, also addressed to Paula, that explains what has happened to the family since her death from porphyria, a rare blood disorder, in 1992. The author, I believe, attempts three things: She defends ...

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