Fortune’s Daughter Pdf Summary Reviews By Alice Hoffman

Fortune’s Daughter Pdf is a Magical Realism and Contemporary Fantasy Fiction novel By Alice Hoffman. This story is about two mothers whose lives are on the brink of life-altering change.

Fortune’s Daughter Book Summary

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.

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About Alice Hoffman Author Of Fortune’s Daughter Pdf Book

Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Author Of Fortune’s Daughter Pdf is the author of thirty works of fiction, including Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, Magic Lessons, and, most recently, The Book of Magic. She lives in Boston. Visit her website: www.alicehoffman.com

Fortune’s Daughter pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information

Fortune's Daughter Pdf
Fortune’s Daughter Pdf
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Reprint edition (December 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425168700
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425168707
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #711,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3,257 in Magical Realism
  • #19,744 in Contemporary Women Fiction
  • #34,250 in Literary Fiction (Books)
  • Customer Reviews: 3.9 out of 5 stars    280 ratings

Fortune’s Daughter Book Reviews

Luan Gaines

HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE

4.0 out of 5 stars A writer with the Midas Touch
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2001

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Hoffman spills language before her readers like golden coins, storytelling rich with imagery and texture, words spinning out like fables or folktales.
The characters in FORTUNE’S DAUGHTER are multi-faceted. Rae, a young woman who finds herself pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, embraces her approaching motherhood. Distanced from her parents, Rae casts about for someone to help guide her through natural childbirth. She chooses Lila Gray, a pyschic reader of tea leaves, and it is Lila who breaks our hearts.
Living with her own demons, Lila is the most beautifully rendered of all the people in this story. Lila has yet to forgive herself for giving up the baby girl she had at eighteen, allowing her parents to place the infant for adoption. The parents are unwilling to help their daughter, turning their backs as Lila endures the pain of childbirth with only her cousin, a nurse, to help her. The agonies of birth are stunningly rendered, the images powerful and recognizable.
Lila’s emotional development is arrested during this mournful time, and death becomes her suitor, courting daily. With the spring thaw, Lila is seduced back to life, falls deeply in love and marries. She spends the following years running from a truth she has been unable to share with her husband.
Rae’s advancing pregnancy torments Lila with thoughts of her own lost daughter. She packs her suitcase, leaving with no explanation, determined to find her child.
What Lila discovers is not what she’s expected, dreamed about. Returning home, her mind struggles with acceptance, unable to see little else, including her patiently loving husband. The marriage is strained as Lila isolates in her world of imagination. Finally, Lila is given the courage to release the past, lay it to rest, and reach toward the future. Hoffman creates such a fully realized Lila, that she virtually walks off the page, the reader wishing for this woman’s happiness.

Heidi_g

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Alice Hoffman read…
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2013

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When I read this, I was ready for another Alice Hoffman book. She takes the ordinary world, makes it completely awful, and then pulls all of the magic and wonder out of it, like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. I have several Alice Hoffman books on my sagging Kindle bookshelves and not sure what made me pick this one next, but it was a perfect read for the moment that I was in.

I wonder how much my response to a book has to do with the moment I pick it up in time and start reading it. Like if I gave a book 5 stars when I read it on December 21, 2012 would I have given it 5 stars if I’d read it on March 12, 2009? I don’t know. One of life’s little mysteries. But–and I am sure all avid readers agree–there’s something cosmic about closing your eyes, picking your next read from your heart, and then…ah, yes, those 5 stars.

Fortune’s Daughter is a humble book. No dystopia end of the world serial killer vampire werewolf zombie apocalypse. Just a simple tale of unresolved grief and mothers who’ve lost daughters and daughters who’ve lost mothers and the men who love them in the best ways that they can. I loved the whole tea-reading-fortune-telling thing and Rae and Lila are interesting within their world’s that lack–completely–celebrity and fame or anything very sparkly. Just living their lives. And finding their own magic within them.

I will leave you with this line … that upon reading it…made me smile and nod because, after all is said and done, life is a mysterious thing…Into this cake Lila had baked three gifts: a cool hand to test for fevers, a kiss with the power to chase away nightmares, a heart that can tell when it’s time to let go.

Duane M. Timm

4.0 out of 5 stars Wake Up!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2016

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The only reason I ordered this novel is I like Alice Hoffman. This is a tale of two women with problems (many) in their lives. I do not consider myself a chauvinist but honestly, if I had been present I would have loved to slap either one of these women and shouted, “Wake up!” Rae’s boyfriend has abandoned her (pregnant of course) and Lila’s husband is totally devoted and she treats him like dirt. Lila tells fortunes and when she tells Rae’s fortune they become acquainted, and friends (?).

Hoffman has a way of writing that holds my interest; she develops her characters and I keep hoping they will come to their senses and get on with their lives. She concludes her book with a “you decide” option. It is a beautiful ending, leaving me hopeful. I have other Hoffman novels on my “Waiting to be read” list; her books are an escape. However, she does get you to think. Recommended!

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