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Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely protective—a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973. Popo, Maya's grandfather, is an African American astronomer and professor—a gentle man whose solid, comforting presence helps...

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Overview

Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely protective—a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973. Popo, Maya's grandfather, is an African American astronomer and professor—a gentle man whose solid, comforting presence helps calm the turbulence of Maya's adolescence.

When Popo dies of cancer, Maya goes completely off the rails. With her girlfriends—a tight circle known as the Vampires—she turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime, a downward spiral that eventually bottoms out in Las Vegas. Lost in a dangerous underworld, she is caught in the crosshairs of warring forces—a gang of assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol. Her one chance for survival is Nini, who helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile. Here Maya tries to make sense of the past, unravels mysterious truths about life and about her family, and embarks on her greatest adventure: the journey into her own soul.

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Editorial Reviews

Library Journal
International best-selling novelist Allende (Inés of My Soul) delivers a no-holds-barred story of Maya Vidal, a troubled 19-year-old American living in exile on Chiloé, a remote island off the coast of Chile. Over the span of one year, Maya records in her notebooks how she arrived on the island and regained her life there. She was raised in Berkeley, CA, by unconventional grandparents, Chilean native Nini and Popo, an African American astronomy professor. When her beloved Popo died, Maya's world fell apart; a few wrong turns led her into drugs, shoplifting, and then, in Las Vegas, to an association with a despicable drug dealer named Brandon, whose hidden cache of counterfeit money she revealed. Soon, a corrupt cop, Brandon's killers, and the FBI were all after her. Nini sent her to the bottom of the world to stay with Manuel, an anthropologist writing a book on magic in Chiloé. Surrounded by the accepting Chilean villagers, Maya learns about herself, her heritage, and her connection to Chile's turbulent past. VERDICT Allende paints a vivid picture contrasting Maya's drug-clouded past and her recovery in Chiloé. Yet another accomplished work by a master storyteller that will enthrall and captivate. This is a must-read. [See Prepub Alert, 11/12/12.]—Donna Bettencourt, Mesa Cty. P.L., Palisade, CO
Publishers Weekly
Allende (The House of the Spirits) moves away from her usual magical realist historical fiction into a contemporary setting, and the result is a chaotic hodgepodge. The story, told through 19-year-old Maya Vidal’s journals, alternates between Maya’s dismal past and uncertain present, which finds her in hiding on an isolated island off Chile’s coast, where her grandmother, Nidia, has taken her. Maya’s diary relates a journey into self-destruction that begins, after her beloved step-grandfather Popi’s death, with dangerous forays into sex, drugs, and delinquency, but ends up in a darkly cartoonish crime caper, as she becomes involved with gangsters in Las Vegas. Maya describes her present surroundings, meanwhile, with a bland detachment that would be more believable coming from an anthropologist than a teenager. Allende’s trademark passion for Chile is as strong as ever, and her clever writing lends buoyancy to the narrative’s deadweight, but this novel is unlikely to entrance fans old or new. Agent: Carmen Balcells, Carmen Balcells Agency. (May)
Booklist (starred review)
“An explosive novel…Every character is enthralling…This is a boldly plotted, sharply funny, and purposefully bone-shaking novel of sexual violence, political terror, “collective shame,” and dark family secrets, all transcended by courage and love.”
San Jose Mercury News
“MAYA'S NOTEBOOK sings a contemporary tune…the narrative expands from harsh twenty-first century language to lyrical descriptions of Maya's unfolding exterior and interior worlds. It's a coming-of-age tale achieved by immersion in ageless wisdom…the beauty of Allende's writing remains undeniable.”
John Barron
What sets Maya's Notebook apart from the usual teen-in-trouble fare is the soaring redemption Maya finds in Chile. The village's peaceful pace is a tonic to both Maya and the reader…a captivating read by a great storyteller.”
Maribel Molyneaux
“A brilliant storyteller, Allende creates a giant spiderweb of relationships; pull one thread and the whole structure shudders…fans of Allende and those new to her work will find a great deal of satisfaction in following the often-harrowing but always enlightening adventures of Maya Vidal.”
Miami Herald
“A gritty, violent, cautionary tale set firmly in the present…But the writing is still all Allende: driven by emotion…framed by her brand of lyrical description.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Maya's story is soul-restoring in its fierce conviction that there is no damage done to a society, familyor individual that cannot be eclipsed by hope and love. Allende makes you believe that, even if youdon't, at least for a while.”
Seattle Times
“Longtime fans of Isabel Allende's work will find much of the author's beguiling mix of clear-eyed toughness and lightness of spirit in her new protagonist, and will welcome another chapter in Allende's continuing exploration of Latin America. Those introduced to Allende by MAYA'S NOTEBOOK surely will want more.”
Entertainment Weekly
“Allende can spin a yarn with the grace of a poet.”
Jane Ciabattari
“Gripping…Allende retains the storytelling magic that is her signature, while deftly juxtaposing the alternating universes of the past-including Chile's dark history of political terror-and present…A tale of a girl's journey toward self-discovery, of the fierce power of truth, and of the healing force of love.”
Vanity Fair
“Isabel Allende enchants in MAYA'S NOTEBOOK.”
Malena Watrous
“A riveting new novel…From the very start, Maya is in possession of a strong and authentic voice that guides the novel and gives it shape.”
Reed Johnson
“Bruising and cinematically vivid…Maya's Notebook exerts a raw and genuine power…Its strength is Maya's distinctive voice: vulnerable but spiked with irony, wounded yet defiant, like a teenage emo-punk's pierced tongue.”
Booklist
"An explosive novel…Every character is enthralling…This is a boldly plotted, sharply funny, and purposefully bone-shaking novel of sexual violence, political terror, "collective shame," and dark family secrets, all transcended by courage and love."
Kirkus Reviews
A 19-year-old Californian escapes her troubled past when her grandmother sends her to an isolated Chilean community in the latest confection of spiritual uplift, political instruction and lyrical melodrama from Allende (Island Beneath the Sea, 2010, etc.). In 2009, Berkley-born and -bred Maya arrives in Chiloé, an isolated island community in southern Chile, to escape the drug dealers and law enforcement officials on her trail. Her eponymous notebook combines a record of Maya's not-so-gradual immersion into the Chiloé community with her memories of an idyllic childhood and horrifically wayward adolescence. Because her Scandinavian mother deserted her in infancy and her father traveled constantly as a pilot, Maya was largely raised by her paternal grandparents, Nini and Popo. Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer, is actually Chilean-born Nini's second husband; she left Chile with her son after her first husband's arrest/torture/murder by Pinochet forces. While Maya has always loved fiery Nini, Popo was the steadying center of her girlhood. After his death, Maya dove headlong into a life of addiction and criminality, ending up on the streets of LA, where she became a drug runner and worse. But all that ugliness seems far away as she settles into Chiloé, living with and assisting Nini's old friend Manuel, an anthropologist researching the mythology of the Chilotes. Maya, who is visited at times by visions of her Popo, builds a special relationship with Manuel--her curiosity about Manuel's relationship to Nini gives Allende an excuse to explore the dark history of 1970s Chile. Maya also coaches the local kids at soccer and falls in love with a backpacking psychiatrist from Seattle, a gentle romance that contrasts starkly with her memories of rape and violation. Despite her enthusiasm for her new life, Maya remains in danger: She knows secrets criminals might kill for if they can just find her. Allende is a master at plucking heartstrings, and Maya's family drama is hard to resist, but the sentimentality and a lack of subtlety concerning politics, Chilean and American, can grate.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062105646
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/23/2013
  • Sold by: Harpercollins
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 2
  • File size: 809 KB

Meet the Author

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende is the bestselling author of eleven works of fiction, four memoirs, and three young- adult novels, which have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages with over 57 million copies sold. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2012. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, she lives in California.

Nacida en Perú y criada en Chile, Isabel Allende es la autora de nueve novelas incluyendo más recientemente Zorro, Retrato en Sepia, Hija de la Fortuna e Inés del Alma Mía. También ha escrito cuentos cortos, tres libros autobiográficos incluyendo Mi País Inventado y Paula, y una trilogía de libros para jóvenes. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de 27 idiomas y son bestsellers a través del mundo entero. En 2004, fue nombrada a la Academia de Artes y Letras de los Estados Unidos. Vive en California.

Biography

In Isabel Allende's books, human beings do not exist merely in the three-dimensional sense. They can exert themselves as memory, as destiny, as spirits without form, as fairy tales. Just as the more mystical elements of Allende's past have shaped her work, so has the hard-bitten reality. Working as a journalist in Chile, Allende was forced to flee the country with her family after her uncle, President Salvador Allende, was killed in a coup in 1973.

Out of letters to family back in Chile came the manuscript that was to become Allende's first novel. Her arrival on the publishing scene in 1985 with The House of the Spirits was instantly recognized as a literary event. The New York Times called it "a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present and future of Latin America."

To read a book by Allende is to believe in (or be persuaded of) the power of transcendence, spiritual and otherwise. Her characters are often what she calls "marginal," those who strive to live on the fringes of society. It may be someone like Of Love and Shadows 's Hipolito Ranquileo, who makes his living as a circus clown; or Eva Luna, a poor orphan who is the center of two Allende books (Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna).

Allende's characters have in common an inner fortitude that proves stronger than their adversity, and a sense of lineage that propels them both forward and backward. When you meet a central character in an Allende novel, be prepared to meet a few generations of his or her family. This multigenerational thread drives The House of the Spirits, the tale of the South American Trueba family. Not only did the novel draw Allende critical accolades (with such breathless raves as "spectacular," "astonishing" and "mesmerizing" from major reviewers), it landed her firmly in the magic realist tradition of predecessor (and acknowledged influence) Gabriel García Márquez. Some of its characters also reappeared in the historical novels Portrait in Sepia and Daughter of Fortune.

"It's strange that my work has been classified as magic realism," Allende has said, "because I see my novels as just being realistic literature." Indeed, much of what might be considered "magic" to others is real to Allende, who based the character Clara del Valle in The House of the Spirits on her own reputedly clairvoyant grandmother. And she has drawn as well upon the political violence that visited her life: Of Love and Shadows (1987) centers on a political crime in Chile, and other Allende books allude to the ideological divisions that affected the author so critically.

But all of her other work was "rehearsal," says Allende, for what she considers her most difficult and personal book. Paula is written for Allende's daughter, who died in 1992 after several months in a coma. Like Allende's fiction, it tells Paula's story through that of Allende's own and of her relatives. Allende again departed from fiction in Aphrodite, a book that pays homage to the romantic powers of food (complete with recipes for two such as "Reconciliation Soup"). The book's lighthearted subject matter had to have been a necessity for Allende, who could not write for nearly three years after the draining experience of writing Paula.

Whichever side of reality she is on, Allende's voice is unfailingly romantic and life-affirming, creating mystery even as she uncloaks it. Like a character in Of Love and Shadows, Allende tells "stories of her own invention whose aim [is] to ease suffering and make time pass more quickly," and she succeeds.

Good To Know

Allende has said that the character of Gregory Reeves in The Infinite Plan is based on her husband, Willie Gordon.

Allende begins all of her books on January 8, which she considers lucky because it was the day she began writing a letter to her dying grandfather that later became The House of the Spirits.

She began her career as a journalist, editing the magazine Paula and later contributing to the Venezuelan paper El Nacional.

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    1. Hometown:
      San Rafael, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 1942
    2. Place of Birth:
      Lima, Peru
    1. Website:
      http://www.isabelallende.com

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  • Posted Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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    4.5 Stars Maya's Notebook is a coming of age contemporary novel

    4.5 Stars

    Maya's Notebook is a coming of age contemporary novel that follows Maya Vidal as she escapes into hiding from her home in America to a small island off of Chile to escape her past of crime, prostitution and drugs - as well as running from Interpol, the FBI, police and even a gang of assassins. Throughout the book, we learn of Maya's life: her family history, her mistakes, her past, her thoughts and dreams, and even a family secret so deep that it threatens to shatter Maya's life.

    This is another breathtaking novel from a bestselling author whose talent is evident from the first paragraph. This story deviates from her other books, as it's set in the current time instead of the past. Maya's character is a solid and very layered main character. We learn a lot about her throughout the story. I came to see her in many ways and was able to watch her character grow and come into her own. I loved reading about Maya's life and her family, all of which made her more realistic in my eyes, which is a great quality for a lead character. The book is written from Maya's point of view, in the form of journal entries. Although I normally don't like this format, I think the epistolary form worked well for the plot and the characters in the story. The pace of the book was well done and the journal entries made for easy reading. The plot flowed effortlessly and easily intertwined Maya's past with her present circumstances and her thoughts. The writing style was flawless and done with such vivid descriptions and lyrical prose that I was immediately captivated and brought into Maya's world within the first few sentences of the book. It was a wonderful mixture of beauty, sadness, and hope that I haven't seen in many books before. This is one novel that will reach your heart and stay with you long after you finish reading it. I highly recommend it to lovers of literary fiction and young adult coming of age novels.

    Disclosure: I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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  • Posted Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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    Maya¿s Note­book by Isabel Allende is a fic­tional novel and a c

    Maya’s Note­book by Isabel Allende is a fic­tional novel and a com­ing of age story. Ms. Allende is an award win­ning, inter­na­tion­ally famous, Chilean writer.

    Maya Vida was aban­doned by her par­ents and grew up with her grand­par­ents, an astronomer and a Chilean immi­grant, in Berke­ley, CA. When her grand­fa­ther dies Maya descends into drugs, alco­hol and a life of petty crime which even­tu­ally leads her to Las Vegas with the FBI, Inter­pol, the local police and a few gang­sters after her.

    Maya’s grand­mother helps her escape to Chiloé, a remote island off the coast of Chile. In Chiloe she meets peo­ple from her grandmother’s past and begins to record her story in her notebook.

    There were sev­eral rea­sons I chose to read Maya’s Note­book by Isabel Allende, one was, of course, the author but the other was the set­ting. I have men­tioned it sev­eral times that I enjoy read­ing books which are set at places I've been to. Luck­ily for me I've been at many places and the island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile is one of them.

    When I went to Chiloé it was just for a day trip, I remem­ber how beau­ti­ful, serene and relax­ing it was. The peo­ple were great, the scenery was fan­tas­tic, won­der­ful food and deli­cious home­made apple cider. Of course when I read that the book takes place on the island I imme­di­ately requested a copy.

    The book starts out slowly but grows on you, at first I thought I made a mis­take. The book is in the form of a diary, a com­ing of age story of delin­quent girl from a dys­func­tional fam­ily who com­plains and jus­ti­fies her choices (or lack thereof). The nar­ra­tive goes from past to present in a way which was, at first, dif­fi­cult to fol­low. How­ever, about half way through the book the story comes out and the loose ends start to make sense all the way to a pow­er­ful ending.

    While the book has its ups and downs, Allende is a world class author and it shows through­out. The novel is dri­ven solely on the force of the Maya Vidal’s, protagonist’s char­ac­ter and Allende pulls it off with­out a hitch. Through the nar­ra­tive the reader also learns about a sim­pler and mean­ing­ful lifestyle on an island which is con­sid­ered a trea­sure by many people.

    I thought that the part of the book which takes place in Las Vegas is a bit over the top. I don’t think one needs to go to such bizarre expe­ri­ences to suf­fer the trau­matic break­down Maya has suf­fered, it takes much less than what the author describes which seems, to me at least like a made-for-TV spe­cial. I don’t want to give away much of the book, since Maya is wanted by the FBI and the crim­i­nal ele­ment for some­thing she knows, it would have been more believ­able to me if she wasn’t involved in petty crimes.

    Even though the book was a slow start, I did enjoy the mid­dle and end­ing. The novel pro­vides a fas­ci­nat­ing, and some­times sus­pense­ful, read with much to think about afterwards.

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  • Posted Fri May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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    A young woman finds herself hidden away on a remote island in Ch

    A young woman finds herself hidden away on a remote island in Chile, on the run from...I'm not sure she even knew just who she was running from. After months as a runaway, living on the streets of Vegas, immersed in a life of drugs and prostitution, she is now sober and hiding out on this island, surrounded with odd individuals and misfits who become her family, as she reminisces and slowly leads us through the story of her past, revealing herself to us.

    Maya is a feisty girl and a bit of a rebel, but good at heart. She's just damaged by her past. She loved her grandfather more than anyone, and when she lost him, she lost her bearings and began a downward spiral.

    We find Maya living on an island in Chiloe, and her story flips back and forth between past and present, helping to break up the suspense, which builds and builds in her backstory.

    The island is a superstitious area, and while a bit "backward" at times, Chiloe grows on Maya.

    This was my first introduction to the author Isabel Allende, although she has been on my Wish List for quite awhile now, and I found she has a very easy-to-read writing style, but can be appropriately lyrical at moments.

    My final word: This suspenseful story is told in a muted tone. Maya is at times an abrasive and spunky protagonist, coming to terms with her adulthood and the need to let go of the past in order to move forward in life. At times gritty and hard-hitting, other times sentimental and moving, the story is always intriguing and pulls you along to the very end. My only real complaint is that a couple of areas just sort of petered out. There were characters introduced who just disappeared, and I had a hard time understanding the part they played in the story, or I actually really grew to like them and wanted to know what happened to them, only to find they quietly disappeared into the night. And the ending fell just a bit flat for me. But it's okay. I was ultimately satisfied with the story.

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  • Posted Fri May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Recommend

    I am half way through and can't seem to turn out the light at bedtime. I am really enjoying this nbook.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Fri Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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    Highly recommended. Allende neve disappoints.

    Maya is raised by her grandparents Ninni and her beloved PooPoo. He pilot father is rarely around and her mother is not involved at all. When her grandfather, PooPoo, dies, Maya loses her anchor and drifts into drugs and eventually a terrible life in the underworld in Las Vegas,heavily into drugs and alcohol and bound to a dealer, selling in the wegas Clubs. Nearly killed over infighting between the criminal factions, she is rescued by the "Widows for Jesus", detoxed and sent to the beautiful Chiloe, an Archapelago off the coast of Chile to live with Nini's long time friend, Manuel. She heals in the beauty of the island and the love of the inhabitants. There are many twists and surprises in this engaging story of love and healing.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Fri May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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    4.5 stars. A stunning book, but not surprising coming from the

    4.5 stars.

    A stunning book, but not surprising coming from the great Isabel Allende. I really love that Isabel tackles difficult or overlooked topics in her books. This doesn't change in Maya's Notebook, where the main character, Maya, goes through a journey of shattering pain, humiliation, depression, drug abuse and finally self discovery. I could really relate to Maya and I was so worried about her next mishap, her next mistake. I think it's safe to say that we've all committed some pretty stupid mistakes, so I couldn't really judge Maya because I also have done some regrettable things. But I love the story's main message of coming to terms with your past, of facing it before it devours you and swallows you whole. It is painful remembering the past, but there is also healing in it, when the person is finally ready for it. This is a brave message in a world that refuses to remember the past; we'd rather pretend the past didn't even happen, or we drown out our problems with liquor, drugs or sex.

    One of my favorite things of the novel is the stark contrast between Chiloe and Las Vegas. It felt like they were two completely different planets. While this was probably intentional, I love the way it worked in the book because you can really see Maya grow from this insecure, bitter and lost person to a confident woman who slowly starts to come to terms with her past and can finally begin to cleanse herself from her demons.

    I also love the other characters as well. They are written so realistically and with so much detail, I could picture them clearly in my mind. While this novel can be labeled as YA, I'd definitely say it's for the mature crowd because there are some graphic scenes in here that might make a lot of people uncomfortable. So I'd be weary of this book if you love rainbows and knights in shining armor because a lot of the book is very dark. If you don't mind this, though, you're probably going to love this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Awsomeness

    I thought that this book is very very unique and i think that it is a very good book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Great book!

    I love Isabel Allende 's books. This book is non stop like all her books. I loved the characters. The story is creative and moving.

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  • Posted Tue Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Check out the full review at Kritters Ramblings An interesting

    Check out the full review at Kritters Ramblings

    An interesting trip through the present day and the past of this young girl who through unfortunate events was caught in the crossfires of the authorities and the con men of Las Vegas.  Maya is a young girl who with the death of her grandfather started spiraling out of control and as the book jumps from past to present with ease.  The reader is taking the journey through the past to find out why Maya is in the current place she is in.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Without going much into the story, I will say that I thourally e

    Without going much into the story, I will say that I thourally enjoyed reading this book. I loved how Allende tells the story of Maya's journey through a series of flashbacks without loosing the essence of the novel. I was highly impressed with this novel and treasured reading the book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Page turner

    It probably took me 5 days to read. Well written and up beat considering the content sometimes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Interesting. Great Story.

    Too much happens to Maya to be believable. Recommend though. Great insight to street life and the story has compassion for people from all walks of life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Review for Maya's Notebook

    I usually read Mysteries. However, I saw the review for this book in the O Magazine and decided to read it. Glad I did. Enjoyed it very much. If you haven't read this book, you should add it to your reading list.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Pick up satey at 4:30

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