A Talk with Isabel Allende: “Saying Yes to Life”

Interview
Written By Ann Slater

You’ve lived in Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, Lebanon, and, for many years now, California. Do you feel settled in California, or do you feel like you’re between places?

Physically, I live in California, but I’m completely Chilean. Although I lived in Chile for a short time considering my long life, it’s where my roots are, my memories of childhood. I don’t know if I’m in a between-place, but I have a feeling of going step by step along the trail that is my life. From where to where I don’t know, but I’m walking.

Read the interview here.

Ann Slater
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