"Black Bird House"

"Black Bird House"

Black Bird House by Alice Hoffman
FIVE STARS!
Of course, Blackbird House is Alice Hoffman, what’s not to love? This book is 12 short stories connected by the house on a farm in Cape Cod. The characters who live here throughout history, range from fisherman to scholars, farmers to physicians who fall in and out of love, gather and isolate, rejoice and regret, live and die. The stories have it all, compassion and kindness, anger and animosity all weaved within the human experience amidst the breathtaking shore of Cape Cod. Alice Hoffman’s words flow like honey on a warm summer day, divine!
-Kim Luke

Book Blurb:

Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.

 In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family’s lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House.

 These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home.

 

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