A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

 During the Spanish Civil War, Roser a talented musician falls in love with Guilliam, a passionate Republican.  He dies in the war and Roser, pregnant and unmarried, escapes to a refugee camp in France.  Guilliam's brother Victor, a medic in the war, finds her and hatches a plan for their escape to South America but to make it work there must be a sham marriage between the two of them.  And so the real story begins.  They board the ship Winnipeg, an escape route organized by the poet Pablo Neruda, and head for Chile.  We observe the plight of the immigrant and struggles against the code of economic status. We watch a practical relationship become something much more.  We see the political world shift through Salvador Allende and Pinochet.  We hear wise observations that echo the world we are living in now and pause to consider the poetry of Neruda that begins each chapter.  It is a universal story and a hopeful one, rich in history and sometimes surprisingly snarky - but maybe that's just the translation 😏