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Hoffman's description of her made-up New England town is simultaneously realistic and lushly magical. She sets a stage well, with assertions about Massachusetts in March that lead the reader to accept that females born into a certain family have gifts no living person can have: the ability to see how someone will die, to experience another person's dreams, to identify a liar on sight. Hoffman ties everything up very neatly, so that all the females have a love interest, bad guys lose or grow up, historical wrongs are righted, and estranged mothers and daughters are reconciled. I like happy endings, but truthfully, I care for them most after the characters have struggled or overcome or grown or learned something. These characters are transformed, but so subtly that they seem less real than they might. Nevertheless, an enjoyable and quirky take on the world.

2023-01-08 04:44