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A Great and Timely Book
By Susanna Jade Angolani of Susanna Jade Art
I’ve had a book on my shelf for a year that I finally read. It is "Daughter of Fortune" by Isabel Allende. I love her work. It is laced with history, magic, folklore, deep insights about the human condition and heroic characters who bubble up from her spicy soup. "Daughter" describes the unlikely life of Eliza Sommers, adopted child of a wealthy brother and sister household where she learns to be a Lady and a great cook in the kitchen of her nanny, Mama Fresia. She grows up too fast and follows a lover to the Gold Rush mania in northern CA. We discover much about the years of insatiable greed that permeated the newly acquired American soil from a Latino viewpoint, and also Chinese, as Eliza and Tao Chi’en, her surprise companion, become very close. I thought often of where this country is today, and the institution of Greed that has corrupted every facet of government and corporate operations since America’s inception. There is a very visible line from then to now, and the collapses of today’s institutions were inevitable given the fractional reserve lending practices made legal with the Federal Reserve Banking system in 1913. I stray from the book - it is very timely reading; a historical fiction that keeps one turning the pages. It truly offers much insight into the root causes of our suffering today, and involves the reader in lives lived so close to the edge, as so many do now. All of Isabel Allende's books are charged with wit, profound connection to the human spirit, and unexpected twists and turns of fate and fortune. "House of the Spirits" is another fabulous tale of a young woman's journey through mystical and metaphysical challenges woven into the fabric of Chilean culture during the fascist years of Allende that ended in the coup of 1973. Her work is stunningly captivating and relevant.
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