This author created an ex-convict from Chicago who routinely pulled wagonloads of sand with his teeth during his stint as a circus strongman before donning the name Babalu the Bad and becoming a bodyguard for a brothel. The protagonist of another novel by this author is hit so hard by her husband for comparing him to her daughter's summer lover that she loses several teeth and never speaks to him again for the rest of her life. One of this author's characters cross-dresses as a cowboy and a Chin
This author created an ex-convict from Chicago who routinely pulled wagonloads of sand with his teeth during his stint as a circus strongman before donning the name Babalu the Bad and becoming a bodyguard for a brothel. The protagonist of another novel by this author is hit so hard by her husband for comparing him to her daughter's summer lover that she loses several teeth and never speaks to him again for the rest of her life. One of this author's characters cross-dresses as a cowboy and a Chinese boy in order to verify if her lover is Joaquin Murieta, but eventually settles with the physician Tao Chien. She wrote about powerful characters like the Count Jean de Satigny and the brothel worker Transito Soto in her chronicle about the family of Alba, Esteban, and Clara Trueba. For 10 points, name this Chilean novelist who wrote Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits.
This author created an ex-convict from Chicago who routinely pulled wagonloads of sand with his teeth during his stint as a circus strongman before donning the name Babalu the Bad and becoming a bodyguard for a brothel.
Isabel Allende Llona