Rae Perry is young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child -- accompanied by the angry, moody man she's loved since high school. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, a mother who lost her daughter long ago, on a cold, cold day. Now, as these two women meet, it is earthquake weather in California -- when animals panic, friends and lovers quarrel, ice cubes dissolve in the palm of your hand. It is a time when things are in the air, and the unexpected happens. For Rae and Lila, it will mean the sudden intertwining of their lives and fates -- as each makes a bid to change her fortune forever...
Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen novels:
Blue Diary (2001),
The River King (2000),
Local Girls (1999),
Here On Earth (1997),
Practical Magic (1995),
Second Nature (1994),
Turtle Moon (1992),
Seventh Heaven (1990),
At Risk (1988),
Illumination Night (1987),
Fortune’s Daughter (1985),
White Horses (1982),
Angel Landing (1980),
The Drowning Season (1979), and
Property Of (1977). She is also the author of three children’s books:
Aquamarine (2001),
Horsefly (2000), and
Fireflies (1997).
Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received an M.A. from Stanford University, where she was Mirrielees Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.