Here on Earth
of Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
Description
After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, Marchâs former soul mate and lover. Marchâs father had taken the teenaged Hollis, an abandoned child, and the product of a series of detention homes, into his house as a boarder, and treated him like a son. Yet March and Hollisâs passionate love was hardly a normal sibling relationship. When Hollis left her after a petty fight, March waited for him three long years, wondering what she had done wrong.Encountering Hollis again makes March acutely aware of the choices that she has made, and the choices everyone around her has madeâincluding Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could ever have suspected, and her brother Alan, whose tragic history has left him grief-struck, with alcohol as his only solace. Her attraction to Hollis is overwhelmingâand March jeopardizes her marriage, her relationship with her daughter and her own happiness in an attempt to reclaim the past.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Berkley
- Publication Date July 1st 1999
- First Publication 10/28/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780425169698
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Jenkintown (United States)']
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