The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was in kinship care as a small child.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is Marquez’s 1967 novel that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo.

José Arcadio Buendía and his wife, Ursula, adopt an orphan, Rebecca. The Buendia’s first child, Jose Arcadio, grows up and marries Rebeca. After Jose’s untimely death, Rebecca lives in seclusion for the rest of her life.