Title: Illumination Night
Description: Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence. The scene is set for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Martha's vineyard (mass.), fiction, Large type books, Young women, Grandmothers, New York Times reviewed, Teenagers, Parenthood, Friendship, Massachusetts, fiction, Sisters, Mothers and daughters, Loss (Psychology)
Places: Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)