One of my favorite authors hits another one out of the park. Allende creates a beautifully intricate story filled with complicated flawed characters. Covering over a century in three families' lives while focusing on a sixty-year love between a Jewish refugee from Poland and the son of a Japanese immigrant. Allende deftly weaves together stories of youth and aging from modern times, WWII Japanese internment camps and French resistance efforts, post-Soviet sex trafficking, and child pornography on the internet. Because I have been reading forever, I am rarely surprised by plot twists and always am delighted when an author manages to do so. I'm in awe of her craft. Allende delivers on writing, plot and character. Highly recommended.