Eventually, Richard and Lucia learn that Evelyn is afraid because she had been driving the car without permission that the car’s owner, and her employer, has a violent temper and that there is a dead body in the car’s trunk. When he learns that she speaks Spanish, he calls Lucia to come and interpret for him. He is surprised the next day when Evelyn arrives at his door, virtually inarticulate with fear and panic. Those people are lonely, middle-aged academic Richard Bowmaster visiting Chilean academic Lucia Maraz, also middle aged and living in Richard’s basement and Evelyn Ortega, an undocumented immigrant working as a nanny for a wealthy American family.Īfter he accidentally hits the car driven by Evelyn, Richard gives her his contact information in order to start the process of making insurance claims. In the middle of a mid-winter blizzard in New York City, three people are brought together by a combination of bad weather, accidents, and desperation. The action taking place in the characters’ shared present is summarized in present tense. Substantial sections of the book explore the characters’ pasts: in the Summary, those sections are written in past tense. Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Allende, Isabel (translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson).
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