Writers and life

You know how it is when you stumble across a writer who speaks to you... Who conveys your life in their words. Who captures your family in their books and their stories. Who somehow gets you.

For me, it's Alice Hoffman. I don't know how she does it, but I feel my sisters and my parents on every page. I relish getting a new story from her -- it feels like I'm greedily devouring an old journal that was spotted in the rafters of an abandoned house and it describes, vividly, my family and my life.

I hope one day I can thank her for the gifts she had given me.