Lost in a snowstorm, a group of wanderers decide to make Bearsville their home. For Hallie, everything is a mystery and a revelation every river, meadow and snowdrift is something to be tamed.įrom the outset, each founding family places their stamp on future descendents. Hallie - possessing an indelible faith far beyond her years - is able to fend for herself as she builds traps out of twigs and rope in the dead of winter. Many of the founding families almost freeze to death, vacilating between Trapped between the western slope and the valley below, William Brady and his wife, Hallie, are driven by an incessant hunger their will to endure and thrive symbolizes the humble, ramshackle beginnings of Bearsville. The author's stage is the evolution of the town of Blackwell nestled deep in the Berkshires, where the weather is mysterious and the people are equally unpredictable.īeginning on a wintry night in 1750, the first of several sections tells of the original families and their fight to survive on Hightop Mountain. Hoffman’s latest novel is a successful melding of a colorful past bound to the crimson soil of an ancient garden that somehow relates to one or the other person and the hopes that inextricably unite their lives. Book review: Alice Hoffman's *The Red Garden*Ĭlick here to read reviewer Luan Gaines' take on The Red Garden.
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