Happy New Year!
Let's start the year with a bit of San Francisco and Latin America with Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Here's a Book Summary:
Orphaned
at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso,
Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more
rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the
wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for
Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849,
Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth.
Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza,
pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.
As
we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold
of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern
California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven
mad by gold fever. A society of single men and prostitutes among whom
Eliza moves--with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese
doctor Tao Chien--California opens the door to a new life of freedom and
independence for the young Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaquín
gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over
time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of
personal freedom
Please join us Sun January 19 in the Noe Valley neighborhood!!
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