It's not unusual for Alice Hoffman to create characters to care about and then place them in danger. Lately it seems she goes past danger and lets the awful things happen, and then the books become more about surviving and growing through the tragedy, guilt and sorrow. Readhing her books has become painfully worrisome for me, and if it were not for the rare but key characters who become gifts of grace, I'm not sure I could continue to read her. This book is about Elv, Claire and Meg Story, their mother, Annie, their grandmother Nadia, and malignancies that grow from a long-secret child abduction and rape. Hoffman, as usual, writes like a dream.
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