Richard drank and partied his sorrows away. He has lived in a winter world ever since the loss of his baby to SIDS left his wife severely depressed. Richard is Lucia's boss at New York University and had invited her to be a visiting professor. Both women understand what it is like for a loved one to simply disappear. Evelyn is an illegal alien from Guatemala who also took the dangerous journey to America to save her life. Lucia is an immigrant, a professor, who escaped Chile when her brother's involvement with a gang led to his death and made her life unsafe. The character's back stories take up the most space, told piecemeal in long chapters between the action. Isabel Allende's In the Midst of Winter is a story of rebirth, forgiveness, and love. The trio resolve to undertake a dangerous mission to protect Evelyn, a journey into a silent landscape of deep snow and journeys to their pasts. What brings them together is Evelyn, an undocumented alien, the loving caretaker of a boy with Cerebral Palsy whose parents' toxic relationship and troubled lives has left her knowing more than is safe for her to know. In the middle of a blizzard, Richard is moved to shed his twenty-five year long isolation and dares to love again, guided by Lucia, who has lost everything several times but still takes a chance on love. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
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