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My Name Is Emilia del Valle
First published 2025
San Francisco, 1866. Emilia del Valle grows up with a Chilean father she has never known and a determination to write beyond the limits placed on women. After publishing popular fiction under a male name, she becomes a journalist and earns an assignment with reporter Eric Whelan.
The pair travel to Chile to cover the civil war of 1891. Reporting from a divided country gives Emilia professional independence but also draws her into the history of her own family. The novel links Gilded Age California to the fall of President José Manuel Balmaceda through a story of authorship, identity and political violence.
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