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There were parts of this book I absolutely delighted in, and others I just felt lukewarm about. I'm not generally much for short stories--I like my reading to have some thread of plot or continuity. Happily, Hoffman accomplishes exactly this with Blackbird House: each story moves forward a generatio...
Places have much greater permanence than people. Land exists for eons (now don’t get picky about ocean fronts migrating and the Big Island expanding. You know what I mean) whereas people last mere generations, and often much less. On the surface at least, Blackbird House is a novel of place, in whi...
Blackbird House is a collection of short stories set in the same place over a span of 200 years; the house in the title is the main common thread, but there are other elements that repeat throughout the book (some more successfully than others). That kind of thing is like delicious candy to me, so I...
Best short story book I've read in a very long time. Had a good theme of the home but each story is different.
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