Known for her lush historical fiction novels imbued with magical realism, Isabelle Allende intertwines the lives of two runaways across generations in "The Wind Knows My Name." In 1938 Vienna, 5-year-old Samuel isn't fully aware of why he's leaving his home, but he's hurt when he gets on the train, and his mother doesn't come along with him. In 2019, 7-year-old Anita Diaz faces a similar harrowing situation when her mother is deported on their flee from El Salvador to the United States. Told in alternating timelines, Samuel and Anita face the brutality of the world as young refugees left to fight for themselves until their stories converge for a moment of reckoning and hope.
Release date: June 6
