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Paula: A Memoir World Hisory Alison Formento’s gentle message isWhen her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allendes first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical,