About the Book: The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende is a heartfelt memoir about family, love, loss, healing, and rebuilding a life after profound grief. Following the tragic death of her daughter Paula, Allende reflects on the experiences, relationships, and friendships that helped her move forward. With remarkable honesty and warmth, she explores motherhood, spirituality, addiction, memory, resilience, and the unconventional community she came to embrace as family. Personal, candid, and life-affirming, this moving memoir offers an intimate portrait of the author’s journey through grief and renewal, celebrating the complexity of family and the enduring power of love and human connection.