Isabel Allende is describing the time she experimented with a powerful hallucinogen in an attempt to punch through the writer's block that was preventing her from completing a trilogy of adventure books she had promised her three grandchildren. Allende decided to 'subject myself to the shamanic experience of ayahuasca', a vision-inducing potion made from jungle vines by Amazon Indians.
Learn how: "Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No!" to Drugs", in this page turner, full of moralisms and what appears to be thinly veiled racism. Hey, who said raising kids was easy? :)
