The book My Name Is Emilia Del Valle was published in 2025 by the great writer Isabelle Allende. Allende was born in Chile but now resides in California and she became a U.S. citizen in 2003. The story starts out in 1866. A young Irish woman is about to become a nun when she is taken advantage of by a Chilean aristocrat. Emilia is raised by her mother and her beloved stepfather. She helped her stepfather teach in their school. In her teen years she starts publishing novel under a male pen name. Later she gets a job with the local newspaper and she does quite well. When civil war breaks out in Chile, she and another reporter travel to Chile. Her mother wants her to connect with her father so she can be claimed as his heir. She does connect with her father, and he does claim her as his own. Theys two reporters send back frequent columns about the war and human-interest stories. Eventually Emilia gets caught up in the battlefield. She is injured and jailed. The other reporter uses the U.S. embassy to have her released. The war is over and surely it is time to return to California. The male reporter heads back. Emillia stays on to find the plot of land in a remote area that her father left her. This was a great story about love and travel.
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