My Name Is Emilia del Valle from the author of The

from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism

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where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet

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My Name Is Emilia del Valle from the author of TheIn this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father and herself. In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent