Alice Hoffman is the author of many best-selling novels and books of short stories. Her most recent novels are The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things. This spring Random House will publish Nightbird, a magical book for younger readers. The Witch of Truro was published in the collection Blackbird House.
Fiction
Spring 2010
The Principles of Devotion
My sister Sara called me to her room on the morning of her death. She was in quarantine in the cottage behind our house, stricken with the Spanish flu, unable […]
Fiction
Spring 2007
Changeling
It’s the time of year when the snow comes down, when the Hudson turns silver as though the moon has fallen straight down to the river bottom, a cold, white […]
Fiction
Spring 2004
The Witch of Truro
1801 Witches take their names from places, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so […]
Fiction
Spring 1998
How to Talk to the Dead
Two days after Gretel Samuelson’s grandmother moved in with them, Gretel discovered her down on her knees in the kitchen, looking up past the chandelier, as though she could see […]
Alice Hoffman
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