Title: STRANGE as STRANGE CAN BE
Product review: The characters of this book are more eccentric than my neighbors.The tales intertwined in this book belong more in a 19th century novel than they do in today's writing world.The biases and idiosyncracies of the characters are Hoffman-esque. Oh, are they ever so ever Hoffman.By the time we learn what a drowning season is, we learn that the person who likes to attempt hydro-suicide ventures (almost as often as the tortoises lay their eggs) is not necessarily the most mentally disturbed family member. Maybe, you have to think, the others drove him to the shores to fill his lungs with salt water.Hoffman writes well. Extremely well. And, knowing that many of her other books deal with single women raising teenage kids -- something which I must assume she knows a lot about -- this book surprises you as it stays away from that common theme.If you do not like this book, I can guarantee you will not like many (or most) of her other novels.
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