Isabel Allende has been my favorite author since I read House of the Spirits for the first time twenty years ago. I have read many of her other novels including Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia as well as Ines of My Soul. Just last month I devoured The Japanese Lover in a day. Yet, I have never welcomed myself into her life and read one of her nonfiction memoirs, limiting myself to her fiction.

The Sum of Our Days is the memoir Allende dictated to her late daughter Paula over the span of 13 years. Allende writes of the pain the family fell into following Paula's death and all of the trials and tribulations that come with being a matriarch of a large, extended clan. Usually author memoirs are of the writing process, and they are included here in passing, but this book read a novel that only a master storyteller Allende is capable of telling.

In this book we meet all the members of Allende's extended American family as well as some Chilean members. We intimately follow her relationship with her second husband Willie as well as that of her son Nico and his children. Yet despite the achievements that come with being a world renowned writer, all Allende's milestones flow back to Paula and the measure of time in reference to when her daughter passed away. Willie has allowed Allende to come out of the most dismal period of her life and the two venture into the least ly of relationships, resulting in marriage. Along the way we meet the cast of characters in Allende's life, each playing a distinct role enriching each other's days.

In spite of living her youth in a Catholic country, Allende does not view herself as Catholic, but a spiritualist. Willie has constructed for her an actual House of the Spirits on a hilltop overlooking San Francisco Bay. The extended clan lives in the same neighborhood and many memories occur at her abuela's actual table of the spirits imported from Chile. Allende uses the table along with astrological signs to predict all that has happened to her family during the period encompassed in this memoir, including births, deaths, and the subjects of her next books. As I had already read a number of Allende's novels, I found her system for choosing subject matter to be a fascinating endeavor.

Isabel Allende could write enduring prose based on anything she even witnessed in passing. Writing on what she knows the most intimately allows for effortless and nearly flawless prose even in translation. I feel that after this book I have come to know her and her family better and now reading her books feels meeting with an old friend rather than a famous author. As always I look forward to when I can curl up with her novels and memoirs. hispanic-culture isabel-allende memoirs137 s Elyse Walters4,010 11.3k

Update -- my 'favorite' non-fiction Isabell Allende is on sale today for $1.99 as a kindle download --
Ha....I bought it myself! I 'use' to own a physical copy --but I gave it away --
Now I'm happy to own the ebook copy myself. (a keeper! I could easily re-read this gem)

Even if.......you are not a fan of Isabell Allende's fiction books (can't understand way) -- lol --but even if not -- this is the BEST little human-story!!!! Or maybe --its just me -- (I love it) -- and simply wanted to share its a great price today --for those who are interested -and haven't read it!
If you have grandkids -you'll especially be charmed!


What? I never wrote a review of this book?

WOW!!!! I must have been crazy --or not a GR's member yet!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! I wish I owned a copy of it!!!! Damn--I need to get myself a copy of this book!!!

I bought it for my sister after I read it.

I wanted to invite Isabel Allende over for dinner when I was done reading --
I wanted to be part of her tribe of friends!

I fell in love with Isabel -and her family!

I STILL talk about funny parts of this book....(when her husband wrote a book),
Isabel went to a party one night and a dentist asked what she did for a living. Isabel wanted to lie to him, but told him the truth. He said...."Really, a writer, huh", well, I'm going to write a book when I retire". I was dying laughing when she told the guy she was going to PULL TEETH when she retired.

Later that night --the conversation she has in the car with her husband driving home is sooooooooooo funny!

Many wonderful 'personal stories' in this memoir.
I'm not even a huge memoir fan! But this one was soooooooooooooooo much fun --so warm --so CRAZY GREAT!


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Description: In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. She recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family.

Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory. Here, too, are the amazing stories behind AllendeÂ’s books, the superstitions that guide her writing process, and her adventurous travels. Ultimately, The Sum of Our Days offers a unique tour of this gifted writerÂ’s inner world and of the relationships that have become essential to her life and her work.

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, bound together by the love, fierce loyalty, and stubborn determination of a beloved, indomitable matriarch.

Hooked from the very start. Allende is at times somewhat callous and self-absorbed, I specifically refer to her husband's serious illness in India not standing in the way of her visiting the trinket market; this aspect and the belief in the supernatural keep me from liking her books more. On the other hand, the writing and candour is much appreciated.

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Me ha encantado conocer parte de la vida de esta autora tan especial, a través de "Paula" y "La suma de los días".

Al tratarse de una biografía, el ritmo no puede ser trepidante, aunque se trata de una cosa bastante interesante a la que le falta poco que añadir. Son continúas las sonrisas que desata, las emociones e, incluso, las carcajadas. Siempre recomendable .14 s ?????387 443

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Isabel Allende's books are treats I only indulge in occasionally because there are only so many of them and she's 74 (that worries me.) Still, I don't know why it took me so long to pick this up, it was released 10 years ago. It's wonderful, right up there with The House of the Spirits and Paula. We've had The Japanese Lover in fiction recently, but come on, Isabel, we need to know what happened after 2006. Another memoir, please?nonfiction12 s Sarah saied505 80

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"The Sum of Our Days" is a moving memoir by Isabel Allende of her family during the 1990's and early 2000's. She wrote it in response to her readers' wanting follow-up about her family after having read her first memoir about her daughter Paula; Paula had died as a result of a medical mistake in her 2o's.

Allende is a bright and interesting woman in her own right. I find myself wanting to call her Isabel in this review, as she wrote such an intimate picture of herself in the book. Isabel has experienced both great tragedy and joy in her life. She was a political refugee from a harsh regime in her native Chile which first led her to Venezuela. Later, she settled in San Francisco. To this day, she writes all of her books in Spanish.

She was abandoned by her father as a small child and raised by her mother (who later married a man that Isabel adored and called Tio). As of today's review, Isabel has been married 3 times. This book is about her relationship with her second husband, Willie. Isabel has two children, her son Nico and her deceased daughter Paula, whom she mourns daily.

What was remarkable to me in reading the book was Isabel's insistence and success at forming a tribe of both family members and close friends who live and work together. Her tribe has included her children, Willie's children, their spouses and exes, and all manner of adopted family members. Sometimes, the book felt too intense to read, due to being privy to so many people's personal struggles and sadness. For example, all three of Willie's children had severe substance abuse issues. He and Isabel feared that his daughter was dead; She vanished with no further contact.

Life is not static. What is offered in this book is a picture of Isabelle's life at the time she wrote it. Fifteen years later, I am certain that her life is different today. Readers will enjoy learning more about the Isabel behind her books when they read this. Her vitality, resilience and personality are on full display here.


*** Update: 2-24-22

I am now reading Violeta. In a podcast with Isabel Allende, she said this. "When I don't know what to do, I ask myself, 'What is the most generous thing I can do here?' And, if I do that, I can never go wrong."adoption books-about-books family ...more12 s Mohammed476 648

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