![]() ISABEL ALLENDE: Yeah, three unlikely characters that are stuck in a dangerous situation during a snowstorm in Brooklyn. ![]() And you bring together these characters, one from Guatemala, undocumented from Guatemala, one from Brazil, a family, although originally from Europe, and one from Chile, Lucia. That is from Isabel Allende’s new novel, In the Midst of Winter. More important was that she had somewhere to live and was safe.” ![]() To them it seemed like forced labor or slavery, but this did not matter to Evelyn. According to Richard and Lucia’s calculations, she was paid much less in cash than she was entitled to. In other words, she worked the equivalent of three normal shifts. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Allende writes, quote, “Evelyn did not have fixed hours in their house: she in theory worked from nine to five, but in practice spent the whole day with the child she was looking after and even slept next to him so that she could attend to him if need be. Let’s turn to a passage from the book, when Isabel Allende describes the working relationship that Evelyn Ortega, the young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, has with her employers, the Leroys. Her latest book is called In the Midst of Winter. AMY GOODMAN: Yes, our guest is Isabel Allende, the great, best-selling Chilean writer, one of Latin America’s most renowned novelists, as well as novelist in the United States. ![]()
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