Fortune's Daughter

Book Description
This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago...

"One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade."-- Annie Dillard

"An intimate, lovely novel" (People) from the New York Times bestselling author of Here on Earth.


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"This novel's great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth....It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told."
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Rae, unmarried and pregnant is alone. Lila is older, happily married, a fortune-teller and unable to cease mourning for the baby she was forced to give up for adoption many years ago. They meet in Southern California during the earthquake season—the time when unexpected things happen. Here is Alice Hoffman's beautiful and haunting novel of love and loneliness—and of two women whose lives and fortunes gradually become intertwined.



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