Fortune’s Daughter Audiobook

Quotes

• “One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade.”

  — Annie Dillard, New York Times bestselling author

• “By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming…an intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood.”

  — People

• “This novel’s great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes, or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth…It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Hoffman is a marvelous writer with a painter’s eye who takes the landscape of ordinary people experiencing ordinary emotions and colors them in unexpected ways.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• "Evocative."

  — Chicago Tribune

• “One of those rare books that isn’t comparable to other books at all.”

  — Boston Herald

• “A seductive exploration of the nature of friendship, the exquisite presence of beauty and magic.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Hoffman, as always, shows a talent here for psychic journeys into the past and for a certain portentous tension.”

  — Kirkus Reviews