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What is The Red Garden about?

From Publishers Weekly Hoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of the first settlers, among them a pragmatic English woman, Hallie, and her profligate, braggart husband, William. Hallie makes an immediate and intense connection to the wilderness, and the tragic severing of that connection results in the creation of the red garden, a small, sorrowful plot of land that takes on an air of the sacred. The novel moves forward in linked stories, each building on (but not following from) the previous and focusing on a wide range of characters, including placid bears, a band of nomadic horse traders, a woman who finds a new beginning in Blackwell, and the ghost of a young girl drowned in the river who stays in the town's consciousness long after her name has been forgotten. The result is a certain ethereal detachment as Hoffman's deft magical realism ties one woman's story to the next even when they themselves are not aware of the connection. The prose is beautiful, the characters drawn sparsely but with great compassion. (Jan.) (c) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Who reads The Red Garden?

Author

Hoffman, Alice

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307877758

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.69 / 5 (13,467 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13