Fortune's Daughter

by Alice Hoffman Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie

Overview

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. When these two women meet in Southern California, it's earthquake weather-the time when unexpected things happen. Immediately, their lives and fortunes become intertwined, as Rae tries to break away from the man she has been with since high school and Lila reaches into the past to search for the child she lost.

This contemporary world is set against a series of Russian folktales told by an old woman who lives at the edge of Manhattan, in a place so well hidden it can only be found once in a lifetime.

Editorial Reviews

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Praise for Fortune's Daughter

“An elegant and evocative novel that conjures up a kind of modern-day female mythology.”—Chicago Tribune

“By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming...[an] intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood.”—People

“It is in its juxtaposition of the mythic, the apocalyptic, with the resolutely ordinary...that this novel finds its unique voice...Beautifully and matter-of-factly told.”—The New York Times Book Review

“One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade.”—Annie Dillard

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169523645
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/15/2014
Edition description:	Unabridged

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