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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
by

Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

l's review

Oct 23, 2017

it was ok

bookshelves: biographical, non-fiction, 2017, american-lit, chilean-lit, colonialism-racism-etc, women-gender, chilean-history

I don't like her.

I don't like how she described a fat actress as a woman of whale proportions who had to be imported.
I don't like how when she's writing about racism she actually invokes noble savage and other racist tropes.
I don't like how she essentializes random qualities.

I just don't like her at all.

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