Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Waiting On Wednesday (4)

Title: The Story Sisters

Author: Alice Hoffman

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: June 2

Summary: (B&N)
This luminous tale filled with honesty and love charts the lives of sisters who find their curse and their salvation on the street where they live. One fateful summer they create their own magical world to escape a tragic encounter that has forever changed their lives. The healing power of imagination and love, the interwoven worlds of fiction and fact, the difference between liars and truth tellers, are at the core of this dangerous fairy-tale world where one mistake can follow you forever. A charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart's desire, a demon who will not let go, all live within the confines of the sisters' world. Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them, and finally redeem them.What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this complex novel asks. This is the spellbinding story Alice Hoffman has to tell.

Reaction: I haven't read any books by this author, but I like fantasy. The summary sounds really interesting and it is about coming-of-age. I take that to mean that as a YA book lover I might enjoy it.
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3 comments:

  1. This sounds pretty interesting.

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  2. This sounds really interesting... sort of like that movie Heavenly Creatures!

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  3. I'm not all that happy about the cover though even if it has nothin to do with the content. :)

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