Book Club – Daughter of Fortune: A Novel, by Isabel Allende

About this event

Hybrid event --Zoom link below

• The Book Club meets at 10 a.m. on the 4th Saturday of every month and is a hybrid event, on Zoom and in person at HSGP Community Center, 627 W Rio Salado, Mesa . See Zoom link below.

Title: Daughter of Fortune: A Novel, by Isabel Allende

From Amazon: 496 Pages An Oprah Book Club selection! "Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising." —Denver Post

From the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one young woman's epic journey to save her lover, set against the chaos, greed, and promise of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California, Chileans, including Joaquín, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaquín’s child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover.

In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, Eliza must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, Chinese doctor Tao Chi’en, Eliza soon comes to discover that her search for love has become a powerful coming of age story and a quest of personal freedom.

Henry Geist and Vici Duarte are your hosts. Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9145355110 or use (Open your Zoom app and type number in the box that comes up after you click on the 'Join' icon. After typing the number, click 'Join' again.)

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From Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix (HSGP)