Miss Allende explores multiple themes throughout the narrative, focusing on women’s issues in Latin America, but does not beat the reader with it.

Jorge Salcedo was an insider of the Cali cartel, thinks of himself as noble, he joined the cartel to fight against the notorious Pablo Escobar

The book tells about Grann’s fascination with “Z”, a mythical city mentioned by explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett. Mr. Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon region