From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family... Dear diary—Rose red—Flight—Gretel—Tell the truth—How to talk to the dead—Fate—Bake at 350 — True confession—The rest of your life—The boy who wrestled with angels—Examining the evidence—Devotion—Still among the living—Local girls