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In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
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Richard, Lucia, and Evelyn's lives converge during an NYC blizzard, leading to an odd road trip to hide a dead woman's body. All find catharsis while recounting their past traumas to the others, as they all have roots in Central and South America.

Wow, this was not for me. The story jumped around from the present to the past for all three characters and was mostly told in passive, past tense. There were horrific stories for all three, but all three felt it was okay to dump a body to hopefully protect Evelyn's life, as she was an illegal immigrant.

Spoiler alert, they totally get away with it, and even find out who killed the pregnant woman in the trunk and let that person get away with it. There was also an attempt at a love story between Richard and Lucia, and I didn't buy it.

AND I have to complain about chapter headings! If you are going to title a chapter with a character's name and a date range, please start that chapter with that character's POV and in that date range. So often the chapters were titled as such, but the Allende began the chapter with a different time period and in a different POV! Fine, just don't name the chapters then! Readers are smart, they'll figure out where you are.

Read to fulfill my Book Riot 2017 Reader Harder Challenge. Book written by a South or Central American author and based (in this case mostly) in South or Central America.