Author Alice Hoffman offers lessons on living through and surviving tough times in life--like illness, death, and loss--based on stories from her own life and how she has been able to still find beauty in her life.
After being struck by lighting, a woman undergoes startling physical and emotional changes, and sets out to find another lighting-strike survivor in the hopes of learning how to cope with her new life.
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
A family drama and coming of age story follows the lives of three sisters who create a magical world on their street to escape a tragedy that has changed them forever.
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such characters as a wounded Civil War solider who is saved by a passionate neighbor and a woman who meets a fiercely human historical figure.
