One in Me I Never Loved

A poignant collage of stories of women young and old, this novel from an Alfaguara Prize-winning author explores both the need to be seen and the need to disappear. Margarita suspects that her husband is having an affair with one of his students. Elizabeth tries to escape a shallow life of privilege in New York City in the 1940s. Doris Dana, Gabriela Mistral's lover and executor, enjoys a passionate night of sex and alcohol with a childhood friend. Juliana, a baker now in her eighties, is eager to find the woman who changed the course of her life more than sixty years ago. Anne, the caretaker of a building, leaves in search of her true identity, while her mother must confront her deepest secret for the first time. With an extraordinary blend of real and fictional characters, the past and present intertwine, come face-to-face, and at last question each other in this compelling novel about freedom, love, sex, and the possibilities women have to discover their own limits.