

Local Girls
Author: Alice Hoffman
Narrator: Laural Merlington, Aasne Vigesaa
Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 08/28/2009
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Literary Fiction
Author: Alice Hoffman
Narrator: Laural Merlington, Aasne Vigesaa
Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 08/28/2009
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Literary Fiction
Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of nearly twenty acclaimed novels beloved by teens and adults, including Aquamarine and Practical Magic, both made into major motion pictures, as well as The Foretelling, Green Angel, The Ice Queen, and Here on Earth (an Oprah Book Club selection). She has also written the highly praised story collections Local Girls and Blackbird House. The author lives outside of Boston.
In this coming of age tale, Gretel and Jill are Long Island teens in a contemporary setting, Franconia, a place so bereft of imagination that all the local enterprises use the town’s name for theirs. Alice Hoffman - image from Open Road There are moments in which magic enlivens the story and provides......more
I read this last night while trying to keep warm and like all Alice Hoffman's I enjoyed getting to know her characters, their fates, tragedy and emotions in an unfair world of sickness, disappointment, bad judgements and love. It tells the story of Gretel, her best friend Jill, her cousin Margot and......more
I had Mr. Gober as my English teacher in the ninth grade. He was a very strange man, too strange really to document in this tiny little space, but this isn't about how strange he was. This is about how he assigned us the worst books to read, and very few of them at that. Everyone else was reading T......more