Chelsea CainHoffman has a child's dreamy eye, in the best possible sense. To her, the stuff grown-ups don't see anymore looms huge and important—insects banging on windowpanes, thunderstorms, a chestnut tree with a door to the "otherworld." She invents a realm where that sense of the fictive doesn't go away, where imagination and reality bleed together…In the end, The Story Sisters, for all its magic realism, is about a family navigating through motherhood, sisterhood, daughterhood. It's Little Women on mushrooms.
—The New York Times
Wendy Smith?excessive and over-determined but ultimately so moving that it overwhelms these faults…a brilliantly detailed delineation of ever-shifting power relations among siblings and a beautiful portrait of love's redemptive power
—The Washington Post
Publishers WeeklyLyrical but atypically monotonous, bestseller Hoffman's (The Third Angel) latest follows the dark family saga of Elv, Megan and Claire Story, sisters plagued by uncommon sadness.
