Maya’s Notebook 9781526693044 Paperback

Isabel Allende enchants inMayas NotebookVanity FairLiving on Chilo, a beautiful remote island off the coast of Chile, might sound like paradise. For nineteen-year-old Maya, its the only way she can stay alive.Abandoned by her parents as a baby and raised by her grandparents in California, Maya was always a troubled child. But when her beloved grandfather dies, she spirals and runs away to Las Vegas. When shes sucked into the citys drug trade, she is almost lost forever. Found by her grandmother, Maya is sent to Chilo with two requests: to not contact anyone she once knew, and to reflect on where everything had gone wrong.Bored by the islands monotony, Maya begins to write down her story; but in Chilo there are more remnants of her own history than she anticipated. What secrets does the island hold? And can she ever move on from the pain of her past?