Fortune's Daughter
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Slight tear to top front dust jacket. Bottom front dust jacket is creased. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. but none of that happened.”
This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has 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 life-time.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Slight tear to top front dust jacket. Bottom front dust jacket is creased. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. but none of that happened.”
This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has 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 life-time.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Slight tear to top front dust jacket. Bottom front dust jacket is creased. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. but none of that happened.”
This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has 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 life-time.
ISBN 0-399-13056-X
Alice Hoffman
1985