With beautifully crafted prose, Alice Hoffman spins hope from heartbreak in this profoundly moving novel. For anyone who’s ever been a hurt teenager, for every mother of a daughter who has lost her way, Faithful is a roadmap.Īlice Hoffman’s “trademark alchemy” ( USA TODAY) and her ability to write about the “delicate balance between the everyday world and the extraordinary” (WBUR) make this an unforgettable story.

Here is a character you will fall in love with, so believable and real and endearing, that she captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding yourself at last. Faithful by Alice Hoffman is a very unusual novel (let me be brutally honest and say it is just plain odd). In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls-including an angel who’s been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion-from dark suffering to true happiness-a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. Faithful: A Novel Overview Faithful is a narrative by Alice Hoffman that centers on a young womans personal struggle with depression as told from the perspective of a third person semi-limited narrator crafted to read as though the tale is narrated by the protagonists subconscious. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.

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