He is bundled up heavily and will certainly attract attention if people see his imitation of a child in a snowsuit. Richard, fearing (he’s always worrying about something) that Kathryn’s body will thaw out, drives without the heater. He has chosen the Lexus because he believes that he would stand a better chance of talking his way out of trouble than Evelyn would her status as an illegal immigrant would give her little chance of escape. Richard, fearing that they may be stopped by police, makes sure that Evelyn trails at a good distance behind him. Obviously, they must drive two cars: the gangster’s Lexus and Richard’s Subaru. Their journey in the early morning in hazardous conditions is filled with interesting challenges. Richard and Lucia, the tenant, determine to help Evelyn by disposing of the body and car in a remote area of upstate New York.
The three huddle together for warmth in Richard’s apartment, and eventually Evelyn reveals that she has discovered a woman’s body in the trunk of the Lexus. He asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, to assist him by serving as a translator. Later that evening, she shows up at his home unexpectedly. Although the damage is minor, the young woman panics, speeding off hysterically after taking Richard’s insurance information. He bumps into the tail end of a Lexus, driven by Evelyn Ortega, a small Mayan woman. The landlord, Richard Barmaster, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, makes an emergency run with his sick cat in a major snowstorm. Allende analyzes the behavior of each character compassionately, eventually revealing how all have actually been strengthened by the bizarre event that brought them together.Ī blizzard and a minor auto accident draw the three characters together. All three– a reclusive landlord, a stoic refugee from Chile, and the panicky illegal alien from Guatemala, -have deep traumatic scars caused by horrific events in their pasts. While the plot focuses upon these characters’ bumbling efforts to dispose of the evidence, the author is looking at their characters very closely.
She protests her innocence to two sympathetic educators, who convince her to dispose of the body and the car not just because the circumstantial evidence would point to the alien, but also because of her mortal fear of the ferocious temper of her boss. Isabel Allende’s novel has the makings of a mystery: a young woman’s frozen body is discovered in the trunk of a car driven by an illegal, unlicensed alien, who is working as a nanny for a gangster. 30 Mar, 2018 in Local Events / Ted Odenwald
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