The Sum of Our Days - Softcover

"A vibrant voice, which is at once introspective and forthright...an inspiring and thought-provoking work...The insights resonate, on page after page."--Denver Post

"THE SUM OF OUR DAYS is terrific. It's funny, insightful, moving and filled with Allende's unique voice."--USA Today

"A powerful memoir"--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Allende's THE SUM OF OUR DAYS adds up to an exuberant love letter--not only to her daughter, but to her tribe and anyone lucky enough to belong to one."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Allende is a genius."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Allende's trademark magical realism is ever present...This high-spirited, emotionally packed book enables readers to get a closer look at the life of a much-loved writer."--Library Journal

"A warm meditation on family and love...A book to be savored and reread."--Kirkus Reviews

"A deeply revealing memoir . . . Allende's insight is keen, her prose polished and her language hypnotic . . . This is a book to savor."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"...Ms.Allende...executes this epistolary memoir with the same authenticity and poetry that grace her fiction...Ms. Allende is a survivor worth reading and emulating."--Dallas Morning News

A narrative memoir of the author's life in the wake of her daughter's tragic death describes the idiosyncratic network of friends she has gathered around herself and the realizations she has formed about such topics as love, parenthood, and addiction. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.