About the Book Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even … Continue reading Book Review – My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, trans. by Frances Riddle