Fortune's Daughter
by Alice Hoffman
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Author: Alice HoffmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-12-01
ISBN: 0425168700
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Book Review: Alice Hoffman Never Disappoints
Summary: 5 Stars
Alice Hoffman is an amazingly talented writer. Each of her books lives and shimmers with some of the most evocative, lovely imagery of any author writing today. You know her characters personally. They live in your neighborhood or are members of your family, and you know them so well that you can't help but ache for each step they take through the course of the book.In "Fortune's Daughter," Hoffman parallels the lives of two very different women. Rae is young, single, and pregnant and on the verge of losing her self-absorbed, shiftless boyfriend. Lila is middle-aged and happily married to Richard, who grows roses and lemon trees in unfriendly soil in their California backyard. As Rae's and Lila'a paths cross and Rae's pregnancy progresses, we are drawn intimately deeper into watching how one woman's life comes out of confusion into clear focus while the other loses her center and slips into madness. It's a delicately and finely drawn dance, and Hoffman executes it perfectly.
If anything was unsatisfactory about this book, it was that it ended when it did. After I finished it I sill wanted to go back, to read at least two or three more chapters to know what happens to Rae & Lila, to Jessup & Richard, and to all the others whose lives entwined in this story.
Summary of Fortune's Daughter
This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago...
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