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Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende | Literature & Fiction
Registered by SheWhoReads of Athens, Georgia USA on Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Journal Entry 1 by SheWhoReads from Athens, Georgia USA on Thursday, June 24, 2004

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I haven't read this book. I registered it for the June Crayola Challenge.

Here's the blurb:

Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged enviroment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

Portrait in Sepia is an extraordinary achievement: richly detailed, epic in scope, intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties. 


Journal Entry 2 by SheWhoReads at Cat's Meow Yarn Shop in Athens, Georgia USA on Tuesday, June 29, 2004

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Released on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at Cat's Meow Yarn Shop in Athens, Georgia USA.

I released this book at today's Knit-In at the Cat's Meow Yarn Shop (it's next to the Mexacali Grill on West Broad Street). I put it on the table in the back room. 




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