The Red Garden

Alice Hoffman

I liked this book.  I thought it was a good collection of short stories more than a novel.  The setting remained the same and occasionally involved ancestors from a previous story, but it didn't flow as well as I thought a novel should.  Just when I was getting into a story it would change and we would be dealing with their great grand children's lives.  I do wonder if this would have bothered me less if I had read it in fewer sittings rather than here and there over the past few weeks.  A good book, not a great book.