Fortune's daughter
By: Alice Hoffman
Edition: Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780425168707
Subjects: Pregnancy; Women; Friendship; Fiction
Description: Rae Perry is young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child -- accompanied by the angry, moody man she's loved since high school. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, a mother who lost her daughter long ago, on a cold, cold day. Now, as these two women meet, it is earthquake weather in California -- when animals panic, friends and lovers quarrel, ice cubes dissolve in the palm of your hand. It is a time when things are in the air, and the unexpected happens. For Rae and Lila, it will mean the sudden intertwining of their lives and fates -- as each makes a bid to change her fortune forever...