Alice Hoffman is incredibly skilled at constructing magical, introspective, everlasting stories. Synopsis from back cover Review Cover image from Goodreads Beginning with the town’s founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or of bears, Hoffman seamlessly weaves together the stories of extraordinary characters, among them a wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year that summer never arrives.” “ The Red Garden explores the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.
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