Maya is on the run for reasons we
don’t understand until well into the book.
Her grandmother sends the young American woman off to Chiloe, the most
remote part of Chile to disappear. Maya’s
notebooks tell the story of her present, living on an island in southern Chile
with an old man named Manuel who was a good friend of her grandmother’s. These journals also tell the story of her
past starting with her life as a small child being raised by her grandparents
through the bad turns her life had taken.
Both stories meet up in the present at the very end and all becomes
clear.
I was intrigued by the way the
storylines progressed and met as they did at the end. The author really keeps you guessing how
things will be resolved. While some of
the twists are hard to believe the decent of this smart, sweet teenager into alcoholism
and drug addiction was all too real and frightening. Fans of realistic fiction who like to read
about unknown places will enjoy this tale.
At the hands of the author Chiloe really comes to life as a vibrant and
desolate community and the edge of the earth and Las Vegas shows it’s
underbelly as the dark and dangerous place we knew it could be.
This was a well done audiobook. The youthfulness of the reader’s voice makes
you hope that things will turn out for the best for her.
