This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. There are only two roads in Floreana, Galápagos Islands. One goes along the coast for ...
Allison Amend
Allison Amend is the author of A Nearly Perfect Copy, Stations West, Things That Pass for Love, and, just this week from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Books, Enchanted Islands, inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway. In Amend’s novel, the fictionalized Frances is an independent Minnesotan woman sent with her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, to the Galapágos Islands during World War II. 
