Amy Goodman
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Isabel Allende on "Maya's Notebook," Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup & Death of Poet Pablo Neruda
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14:15Now PlayingThe bestselling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, "Maya's NotebookA Novel." It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although a work of fiction, the story is rooted in reallife tragedy. Three of Allende's stepchildren have struggled with addictiontwo of them have died of drugrelated causes, one in 1994 and the other just a month ago. In the novel, Maya also discovers the dark secrets of Chile's past and learns what happened to her relatives after the military coup that ousted democratically elected President Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973. Isabel Allende joins us to discuss the novel, her personal connection to the U.S.backed coup that toppled her cousin Salvador Allende, and the exhumation of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to determine whether he died from poison by agents of the coup regime.
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