The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman5/29/2023 ![]() Hoffman allows readers to see at this point, that what you may believe about someone is often messed up with white lies as well as outright falsehoods. Hoffman introduces you to the town’s founders in this one, but focuses on a woman named Hallie Brady. “The Bear’s House” (5 stars)-We found out that a town formerly named Bearsville, was founded in 1750, but changed it’s name to Blackwell in 1786. ![]() Readers get to find out what was buried there and the ties that the Brady, Partridge, Mott, and Starrs all have the oldest house in town as well as to the red garden. The biggest tie is that a garden that was started by a woman named Hallie Brady has soil that is red and anything that blooms there comes out red too. I do wish that a family tree had been included so you could follow those you read in the stories and trace their antecedents. The flow between chapters is great and sometimes a person you read about as a child appears in a short story later. ![]() Mixing in historical incidents as well as some magical realism, the town and the residents feel like a very real place after a few chapters. Taking place in a small town in Massachusetts, Alice Hoffman follows the town founders and descendants of Blackwell, Massachusetts. So this was a really great book to choose for the Sleepy Hollow square. ![]()
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