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ALICE HOFFMAN
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The Story Sisters: A Novel
Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome acclaimed and best-selling author ALICE HOFFMAN for a reading from her newest novel, The Story Sisters. Alice Hoffman’s new novel charts the lives of three sisters–Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. "When it comes to blending magic and the mundane routines of life, there's no finer writer than Alice Hoffman—but even she has outdone herself with her latest novel. The Story Sisters hearkens back to the classic fairy tale, where one must suffer fear and loss before stumbling upon a happy ending. Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds, to heal a broken heart, and to tie us irrevocably to the people we love." —Jodi Picoult (Handle With Care)
“The always dazzling Hoffman has outdone herself in this bewitching weave of psychologically astute fantasy and shattering realism….this is an entrancing and romantic drama shot through with radiant beauty and belief in human resilience and transformation.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Keeps readers heartbroken yet spellbound, turning the pages.” —Library Journal
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Alice Hoffman is the best-selling author of twenty-five acclaimed novels, including The Third Angel, The Ice Queen, Practical Magic, The Foretelling, and Here on Earth. She is also the author of two books of short stories, and eight books for children and young adults. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and published in more than one hundred foreign editions. She divides her time between Boston and New York City.
Photo by Deborah Feingold.
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