San Francisco is a prime destination spot. In the 1800s, people came for the promise of gold, adventure, prosperity. In Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune, Eliza travels to California in search of love and finds herself among people from all over the world, all in search of fortune. And in this bustling, changing place, she finds her self.

Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar brings us to places around the world, time tripping through South America, North Carolina, Georgia, England and Africa. But the end point is San Francisco, a place for the future, a place of rock stars, technology and knowledge. It’s a place where her characters can see themselves clearly, at the edge of the world.

So, even though Daughter of Fortune and The Temple of My Familiar show San Francisco at completely different times in the city’s history, the characters share the notion that this place is their final destination, their destiny.

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