Isabel Allende: 'Word by Word, Book by Book, I'm Finding Out Who I Am'

She does not know it, but Isabel Allende (Lima, Peru, 1942) saved me. She does not know it because I, by blush, contain mine, avoid hers, I have not told her on the occasions, several, in which we have spoken. The last one through a screen, because she is in San Francisco, the American city in which she has lived for decades, and I on this side of that puddle that, in the narrative, we both sister. She saved me, I say, I write it, thanks to a bo…