Jasmin Darznik

This was one of the most special conversations of my life.

I first read Isabel Allende when I was a teenager, and her books showed me how much a woman’s imagination could contain, which is the whole world.

To sit beside her all these years later—to talk about the writing life, memory, courage, and the stories that still insist on being told—felt both exhilarating and profoundly unreal.

Isabel, thank you for the books that helped make my own books possible, and for your inimitable spirit.

Thank you to Book Passage for bringing us together & to my many friends for sharing this day with us.

And! Everyone get your hands on Isabel’s fantastic new book, Story Telling.

📸 Photographs by my wonderful husband @seanreiterphotography