Maya's Notebook

The author of ‘The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction.
The narrator and protagonist of ‘Maya's Notebook' is a 19-year-old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an