A conversation on love and loss and community with Isabel Allende

Natasha: There is a character in your new novel, Violeta, who says that when you fall in love later in life there is a sense of urgency that changes it. How does that urgency change love?

Isabel Allende: When I was 72, I divorced my husband, Willie, with whom I had been for 28 years. I thought I would be alone for the rest of my life. Everybody said, ‘Ho…