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Local Girls
1999
First Published
3.62
Average Rating
198
Number of Pages

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

Avg Rating
3.62
Number of Ratings
6,517
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Author · 57 books

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here on Earth, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and the Practical Magic series, including Practical Magic; Magic Lessons; The Rules of Magic, a selection of Reese’s Book Club; and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.

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