This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. When these two women meet in Southern California, it's earthquake weather—the time when unexpected things happen. Immediately, their lives and fortunes become intertwined, as Rae tries to break away from the man she has been with since high school and Lila reaches into the past to search for the child she lost.
This contemporary world is set against a series of Russian folktales told by an old woman who lives at the edge of Manhattan, in a place so well hidden it can only be found once in a lifetime.
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“Hoffman has the uncanny knack of combining the mundane,
everyday experiences with a touch of the occult and folklore…What lifts this
novel into the ranks of the memorable is its evocative, lyrical quality of
writing. Hoffman swings from the everyday to the otherworldly with ease and
conviction. She lays bare the deepest secret thoughts at one moment, then
segues into bits of humor mixed with pathos.”
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San Diego Union-Tribune