But when the car crash upsets his rigid ordered life, he is forced to halt his almost OCD existence and do unpredictable, often rash, things. Richard is in his sixties, a loner, aesthete and reformed alcoholic, he lives his life according to routine. Evelyn, a young illegal immigrant from Guatemala, borrows her employer’s car and in the storm crashes into Richard.
Richard, Lucia and Evelyn are thrown together in Brooklyn, New York, during a momentous snowstorm. Set in modern-day Brooklyn and Guatemala, and 1970s Chile and Brazil, it is the story of people relocated thousands of miles away from family to new countries with strange languages and customs where against the odds they must begin a new life. Laced throughout this deceptive novel are themes of dislocation, grief, human trafficking and the courage to free oneself of these bonds. Each has faced loss and trauma, each feels isolated, lonely. In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende is the story of three ordinary-looking people, people you would not glance at if you passed by them in the street, and their extra-ordinary lives.
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