Booklist - June 1993

“An artful blend of aching realism and provocative meditation.”

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - April 25, 1993

Adrift in America
Lost souls wander the United States in Isabel Allende's new novel
By Mary Mackey

Making so many connections is a formidable task for any novelist to set for herself, but Allende keeps everything in motion with grace and nonchalance as she puts all the pieces together to create a fascinating portrait of America seen from an Anglo/Hispanic perspective.

ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL - May, 1993

'Plan' Shows Our Society - Warts and All
“The Infinite Plan”
By Maria Elena Alvarez

Isabel Allende's new book is great. In fact it is so engrossing that once I opened its pages I had to force myself to put it down and not just read straight through the night.

Allende has an uncanny ability to observe and detail people's lives.

Without question, “The Infinite Plan” is a window into our society, warts and beauty all wrapped up in one.

DAILY NEWS - May 30, 1993

Allende's 'Plan' includes a new style
By Ron Grossman

Part picaresque novel, part quasi-history text, “The Infinite Plan” will fascinate as many readers as it will perplex.

San Francisco Examiner Chronicle Review, front page - June 1993

“Her new tour de force... tells the story of Gregory Reeves, a white, working-class boy who is raised by a Mexican American family in Los Angeles, fights in Vietnam, becomes a successful lawyer in San Francisco and who finally comes to terms with his own fear of intimacy and the chronic loneliness of life in the United States... one great karmic swirl, everyone touching everyone else, every small action multiplied, everything linked... a fascinating portrait of America seen from an Anglo/Hispanic perspective.”

Publishers Weekly - June 1993

“A richly embroidered, ambitious tale... intensely imagined.”

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH - June 13, 1993

Allende finds infinite tales in U.S. Latin America's most-read female writer discovers inspiration and a home in California
By Margaria Fichtner

This latest Allende proves itself the best sort of literary high-wire act, wringing enchantment from tension, danger, courage and style. So far, critical response has been gratifying, and even iron man Robert Bly praises the book's vision and ambition in his review for The New York Times. Allende's enthronement as the most widely read Latin American female writer in history remains secure.

DAILY MAIL - June 24, 1993

Life and love in a Latin ghetto
By Peter Lewis

Devotees of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende's great fairy-tale novel about Chile, will rejoice to find again in her new novel the magical storyteller's touch that transforms life into a compelling emotional adventure, leaving one breathless.

NETWORK - June, 1993

Drop Everything!
Immerse yourself this summer in a wave of fine writing
By Ann Berman and Betsy Burton

The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende is insightful and mesmerizing, a transcendent novel of a man's journey through life. Allende skillfully leads the reader through the disparate worlds of the barrio, Vietnam, Berkeley, and upscale San Francisco, plumbing the depths of the human spirit in a novel that is by turns tragic and comic, earthy and mystical. Isabel Allende is a consummate storyteller.

MIAMI HERALD - June 1993

Isabel Allende explores the anguish of a '60s idealist 30 years later
The faded maps of our lives
By Susan Miron

If you've been wandering around looking for a terrific novel, seek no further. The Infinite Plan  is probably just the book you're looking for.