Skylight confession (2007) by Alice Hoffman

Red haired Arlyn met her husband after her father dies. Fate brought the man to her house.  She then perused him at the university and his home.  They married. Then her 6 year old son, Sam, dis poorly after she dies of cancer.  But Arlyn's ghost appeared to the father and to the new nanny, who kept the family together.  Blanca loved her brother Sam, even though she was 6 ears younger, Sam became a drug addict while years later Blanca discovered that her "father'' was not her father.  Sam lost his life to drugs.

Fortune's daughter (1985) by Alice Hoffman

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The probable future (2003) by Alice Hoffman

The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift. Elinor can literally smell a lie. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams as they’re dreaming them. Granddaughter Stella, newly a teen, has just developed the ability to see how other people will die. Ironically, it is their gifts that have kept Elinor and Jenny apart for the last twenty-five years. But as Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance, the unthinkable happens: One of her premonitions lands her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. The ordeal leads Stella to the grandmother she’s never met and to Cake House, the Sparrow ancestral home full of talismans and fraught with history. Now three generations of estranged Sparrow women must come together to turn Stella’s potential to ruin into a potential to redeem.

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At risk (1988) by Alice Hoffman

With this moving novel, Hoffman has written a story about a family attacked by tragedy, and has given it a larger relevance by confronting one of the most frightening issues of our times. The Farrells are a middle-class family living in a small New England town. Ivan Farrell is an astronomer, wife Polly a photographer, eight-year-old Charlie a budding biologist and 11-year-old Amanda a talented gymnast. Hoffman has few rivals in depicting domestic scenes: the bickering between siblings, the tension between spouses, and withal, the humor and love that holds families together. Suddenly the Farrells are singled out for grief. Amanda, who has been winning gymnastic meets despite a summer-long malaise, tests positive for AIDS, contracted some five years before when she was transfused with contaminated blood after an appendectomy. In unsensationalized detail, Hoffman depicts the effects of her illness. Too stunned, angry and anguished even to turn to each other, Polly and Ivan retreat into separate worlds. Charlie is abandoned by his best friend and shunned by his schoolmates. Amanda, an average adolescent who loves Madonna records, must come to grips with the process of dying. The hysterical reaction of some members of the community is a further blow. Hoffman's sensitive handling of this material is both matter of fact and heartbreaking. Ivan's friendship with a man he meets through the AIDS hotline, Polly's search for comfort with Amanda's pediatrician, Charlie's stoic bewilderment, Amanda's bond with a young woman who is a medium (the only evidence in this novel of Hoffman's characteristic feeling for the supernatural) are all beautifully portrayed.

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Local Girls (1999) by Alice Hoffman

Let me say how much I love Alice Hoffman's writing!  Her prose is sublime and her insights into human nature are mature beyond her years.  In Local Girls she presents an ordinary tale of a family in an extraordinary way. Gretel is a teenage girl who keeps on living in spite of her mother's cancer, her parent's divorce and her brother 's descent into despair.  Her cousin, Margot, and her best friend, Jill, keep her balanced, in spite of their own difficulties. Themes of betrayal and love are explored with a backdrop of very realistic characters, good and bad.
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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

This novel does not disappoint.  I've always enjoyed the history of the 'Biblical' times.  Whether I'm reading The Red Tent or Testament, I remained glued to the pages.  The Dovekeepers is a complicated story of four women who each tell their story of how they came to be at the Jerusalem fortress, trying to withstand the Roman assault.  There are potions, spells, prayers, incantations, hard work, hunger,  and doomed love affairs.  Alice Hoffman does an excellent job of revealing the day-to-day life of the times.  Weaving, cooking, childbirth, and love all reveal a world of honour, harness, homelessness, This is not a story of action.  The lives of the women are chronicled with patience, as are the lives of women.  The women in the novel learn to share, support, and love one another as the shared adversity of women is recognized in a way that binds them and their children together.