The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Author:Isabel Allende
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781526660367
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2023-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Dora Durán, Selena’s famous grandmother, was sixty-six years old and dressed in styles that had been fashionable four decades prior. Out of curiosity, Frank had searched for her on the internet, where he found a web page, interviews, and videos about her incredible psychic abilities. She dyed her hair black and wore an excessive amount of eye makeup; Selena’s mother, in contrast, twenty years younger, was dressed in blue jeans, a loose sweater, and no makeup. Dora’s imposing presence eclipsed her daughter so completely that Frank couldn’t remember her name and Selena had to remind him a few times: Cassandra. Selena’s father, much older than his wife, had died when Selena and her sister, Leila, were four and six years old, respectively. Cassandra mourned her husband for a few months, then enrolled in community college, and then university, where she got a degree as a lab technician. Since then she had been the family’s main breadwinner. Although she paid the bills and supported her mother and grandmother, the two headstrong women granted her very little decision-making power.

The Duráns—Mamagrande, Dora, Cassandra, and Selena—reminded Frank of his own family, except for the fact that they were all women. They treated one another with the same brusque tenderness as the Angileris, the same unconditional loyalty, total trust, and zero sentimentality. The Duráns, although very different from the Angileri women, shared certain traits: They were strong, practical, direct, and hospitable, just like his mother and sisters. The Durán residence in Los Angeles even looked similar to his parents’ home in Brooklyn: small, crammed with furniture and cheap knickknacks, warm and inviting, filled with the smells of cooking and coffee. At that table, sharing homemade dishes, drinking beer and tequila, with everybody talking at the same time, laughing and taunting one another, he felt perfectly at ease among these women: He understood the codes they lived by.

It was Frank who had the idea to go to El Salvador in search of Marisol Díaz. Although he’d never admit it, he gave great importance to the fact that Dora Durán had not received any signs of Marisol from the Beyond. With the hope that her grandmother could help find Anita’s mother, Selena had shown her Marisol’s photo from her immigration file as well as others of Anita. Getting nothing from the souls she communicated with, Dora had wanted to meet the girl personally. Her granddaughter flew her to Arizona and managed to get her into the group home, where visitors were generally prohibited, so that she could spend some time with Anita. Dora was very impressed.

“The child has a gift, but it’s not like mine. It may manifest itself in the future, when she’s a bit older,” she informed Selena after the visit.

“What makes you say that, Abuela?”

“Anita can see the invisible, she can picture the future, she can visualize what will come to pass.”

“She just lives in her own world. She talks to herself. She has a vivid imagination,” Selena explained.

“I think she has the ability to transport herself to another dimension.

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