![]() ![]() Her sorrow after his death affects Violet's relationship with Lion's son and his new wife. Violet's child, Lion, is the village's star-child and the first to attend Harvard. ![]() Violet Cross falls in love with a man who doesn't love her but who falls for her sister. As a child, Ruth Blackbird Hill loses her family in a fire and finds herself at Blackbird House, caring for a man who lost his leg while at sea. Each character she introduces to the house approaches the home for unique reasons, and each leaves in some way changed.Ĭoral Hadley, whose husband built the house before the American Revolution, loses her family in a storm on the Cape. or shelter, for solace, for love, for investment." She explores each of these reasons in her newest work of fiction. "Blackbird House" holds the accounts the house would tell, magical tales of witches and sailors, stories of the generations of occupants that called it home.Īuthor Alice Hoffman writes: "People buy houses for all sorts of reasons. A house made of the wood from wrecked ships, filled with generations of stories of lost love, passion and death. A house in a small cove with a back yard that holds a pond, a beloved horse and a hated man. ![]() Picture a house inland from Cape Cod that smells of salt and lilacs but has no view of the water. ![]()
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