The Probable Future
by:
Alice Hoffman (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781446448250 (1446448258)
Publish date: January 31st 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Edition language: English
I enjoy Hoffman's books—I don't find them to be the tops in current literature or amazingly clever—but they are interesting, well written, and enjoyable. There is always a touch of magical realism and local flavor. In The Probable Future 13-year-old Stella Sparrow and her mother Jenny leave Boston...
I really liked this story that weaves so much together. It's about three generations of Sparrow women, Elinor, her estranged daughter Jenny and her daughter Stella, who as the novel opens celebrates her thirteenth birthday. On that day, as it's been for 13 generations, the women of the family gain a...
I hate to not finish books, so I try to read as far as I can before giving the book up. Fortunately, I don't have a lot of negative things to say about this one, it's more like it's not you, it's me. It just didn't maintain my interest. Not the author's fault. It just wasn't about a subject I cared...
How is this not a movie yet? Maybe "just" a Lifetime movie, but SOME VARIETY OF MOVIE. It seems ripe for it.Oh, wait, it looks like there is a version of The Probable Future headed that way -- I can't find much about it, but it seems to be a Thing. Called it.I've read Hoffman before, and am a fan of...
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