The Banned Book Club "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende

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Tue Oct 28 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

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Bookstore1Sarasota | Sarasota, FL

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The Banned Book Club is led by Bryn Durgin. October's selection is "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende.
About this Event

The Banned Book Club is led by Bryn Durgin, dedicated to reading and protecting the most important and threatened books for our generation. October's pick is The House of the Spirits, an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate. The book has been challenged because of "depictions of violence" and "explicit sexual content."


We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $18.99, which includes a copy of The House of the Spirits to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba. This beautiful, strong-willed child will lead her family and country into a revolutionary future.

ISABEL ALLENDE is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than seventy-seven million books. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 by publishing her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then, she has authored more than twenty-six bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea, Paula, and The Wind Knows My Name.

In 1996, following the death of her daughter, Paula, Allende established a charitable foundation in her honor. The foundation has awarded grants to over one hundred nonprofits worldwide, delivering life-changing care to hundreds of thousands of women and girls.

In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Allende lives in California.



About Book Bans:

Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and remain an issue of concern to us at Bookstore1Sarasota. Over the past years, the scope of such censorship has expanded rapidly. In the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America counted more than 10,000 book bans in public schools. And everywhere, it is the books that have long fought for a place on the shelf that are being targeted. Books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, by women. Books about racism, sexuality, gender, history. PEN America pushes back against censorship and the intolerance and exclusion that undergird it. Learn more here: https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/

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