Episode 17: The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende

“If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so” - Isabelle Allende

This - our lives, the lives of our ancestors and the lives of our descendants - is the story. What happens now, what we do now, is history and makes history. In this Left Shelf episode, we discuss The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende, which centers the lives of four generations of women and how the fabric of history stretches, changes and, sometimes, resiliently stays the same. The hosts, with their guest Tomás, talk about how this novel fits into the greater political events happening in Chile at the time, the role of magical realism, and, of course, gender and race. 

You can read The House of Spirits (free) here.

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