![]() ![]() in creative writing from Stanford University in 1975 before publishing her first novel, Property Of, in 1977. from Adelphi University in 1973 and an M.A. Back in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the family curse.Īlice Hoffman, an American novelist and screenwriter, was born in New York City on March 16, 1952. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, and no books about magic. ![]() ![]() Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people's thoughts and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. ![]()
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