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'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came…

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1 author picked Eva Luna as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The moment I open a book by Isabel Allende, I know I will be transported to a time and culture so unlike my own, and I will get to live there until I close the book and even after in my imagination as the book lingers.

In my own books, I hope to take readers into a world foreign to them and introduce them to a cast of characters revealing the humanity not seen immediately.

In this book, Eva is a storyteller who trades her stories for help from others. Along the way, she immerses us in hidden and not-so-hidden…

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Truth told, folks still ask if Saul Crabtree sold his soul for the perfect voice. If he sold it to angels or devils. A Bristol newspaper once asked: “Are his love songs closer to heaven than dying?” Others wonder how he wrote a song so sad, everyone who heard it…

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