SMALL TEAR ON TOP OF BACK COVER
Daughter of Fortune is the tale of a young Chilean woman's search not for wealth but for love during California's Gold Rush days. Like other stories set in a time and place peopled by the likes of Mark Twain, the adventures of Eliza Sommers sometimes veer toward the tall tale. But it is part of Allende's talent to make us believe that even the most outlandish coincidences and crossing of paths might really be possible. And her readers likely have grown comfortable with the presence of ethereal beings. In this book, however, owing to Eliza's deep friendship with a man named Tao Chi'en, the ghosts tend to be Chinese rather than Latin.