The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Napkins a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin

a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams

Chic and scalloped

But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security

“Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you

Kirk and Rusty

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende Napkins a shy twenty-one-year-old studying LatinABOUT THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty first century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta Timely, provocative . . . emotionally satisfying . . . [a story about] the kindness of strangers who become family.The New York Times Book Review