March Murray returns to her New England hometown after nineteen years to bury her surrogate mother and finds herself embroiled in the arms of her past in the form of childhood friend and previous lover Hollis. Here on Earth delves into the bittersweet and painful aspects of love as March rediscovers that time changes people and even her own love as it spirals into self-destruction guided by dominance and Hollis’s need for control.
Human loss, frailties and fears, and the routines of everyday life stood on its head with a touch of magical realism--these qualities in part delineate the boundaries of the fictional landscape create...
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Alice Hoffman developed a taste for the magical at an early age from reading Grimm's fairy tales and stories by Ray Bradbury; an affinity for magic permeates all of her fiction. Her novels, short stor...
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