Full name: Maya's Notebook: A Novel

Author: Isabel Allende Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780062105622 9780062105639 0062105620 0062105639

Isabel Allende's latest novel, set in the present day (a new departure for the author), tells the story of a 19-year-old American girl who finds refuge on a remote island off the coast of Chile after falling into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution. There, in the company of a torture survivor, a lame dog, and other unforgettable characters, Maya Vidal writes her story, which includes pursuit by a gang of assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol. In the process, she unveils a terrible family secret, comes to understand the meaning of love and loyalty, and initiates the greatest adventure of her life: the journey into her own soul. Similar books: Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor The Name of a Bullfighter by Luis Sepulveda The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. The Movies of My Life by Alberto Fuguet Wonder by R. J. Palacio Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate Luna by Julie Anne Peters Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks Perfect by Natasha Friend Garden of Angels by Lurlene McDaniel Birthright by Willow Cross Belligerent by B. N. Mauldin