Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows's legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance.
In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past-and a very current murder-against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future-a future that she might not want to see. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. “Hoffman’s ethereal tale of a family of women with supernatural gifts is a magical escape, grounded in the complex relationships between mothers and daughters.Alice Hoffman's most magical novel to date-three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. Hoffman is an amazingly talented writer with a beautiful sense of sentence construction, an intriguing imagination, and the ability to create compelling, complex characters that readers care about.” - Fort Worth Star-Telegram It feels like a vacation to curl up with. Hoffman is an unapologetic optimist, and optimism is in short supply these days. A magical, mystical tour de force of pure entertainment.” - The Seattle Times
“A thrilling adventure of literary alchemy. Poignant, arresting, unsettling, The Probable Future showcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America’s most treasured writers. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows’s legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past-and a very current murder-against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams when they sleep. Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date-three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.
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