Introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of blackwell, massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town Am...Introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of blackwell, massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions.