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Loading... Illumination Nightby Alice Hoffman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Excellent writing with interesting characters. Elizabeth Renny is getting old and having "spells." Her granddaughter Jody has come to Martha's Vineyard to take care of her but is an angry, rebellious, sexually aggressive 16-year-old. Next door to Elizabeth is a young couple, Vonny and Andre, with issues of their own and a son who isn't growing. There is also a "giant" in the book who becomes involved with a couple of the characters. A haunting story and the author doesn't neatly tie up all the loose ends but does leave the reader with hope that the characters they have come to know and care about will survive and even thrive. Ms. Hoffman never disappoints. (  ) CatieN | Aug 15, 2009 |  Vonny and Andre have a son who is very small. Old Neighbor has her granddaughter Jody come to live and take care of her for a month. It becomes much longer and Jodi causes lost of problems, too much with the boys and flirts with Andre. There's a giant to match a giant story and some disaster as Jodi graduates, little Billy grows up a bit and Vonny has panic attacks that keep her home. The best description of panic leading to agrophoria that I've read. Good but not a 5. ( ) hammockqueen | Apr 24, 2009 | It was an enjoyable read but not my favorite by this author. It is a rather quiet story of real people full of contradictions and issues, and how they overlap, cross paths, evolve. Very introspective and human, very morally murky, and bittersweet. (  ) iphigenie | Mar 20, 2008 | A woman plagued with agoraphobia learns to deal with the world in this beautifully written novel. The ending is simply magical. (  ) bastet | Sep 30, 2007 | meh. Fast beach read. Did not find the characters too believable and hence did not get into the story. (  ) piefuchs | Jun 1, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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