Cara Hoffman, Simon & Schuster, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1675-0
In this remarkable debut, Hoffman addresses serious injustices in present-day America. In 1992, Claire and Gene Piper, both idealistic New York City physicians, eschew joining Doctors Without Borders and decide instead to move with their gifted two-y
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Cara Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-45164-131-8
Hoffman’s excellent sophomore effort (after 2012’s So Much Pretty) describes the troubled homecoming of U.S. Army Sergeant Lauren Clay to Watertown, N.Y., from a tour of duty in Iraq. Lauren, left as a young girl by her mother to care for her little
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Cara Hoffman. Simon & Schuster, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5757-5
Hoffman’s excellent third novel (after Be Safe I Love You) follows acclaimed poet and professor Milo Rollock as he reminisces about his unscrupulous youth in Greece and the people who still haunt him. After leaving his working-class neighborhood to...
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Cara Hoffman. HarperCollins, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-286547-2
Life is “a song” for Tubs, a musician frog who lives in a Louisiana swamp where he and his community of animals have always had all they’ve needed. But then things change. Fish, a crucial food source, begin to disappear, and many animals start...
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Cara Hoffman, illus. by Olga Demidova. HarperCollins, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-286544-1
In Hoffman’s whimsical debut, the Dormouse of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland lands in Manhattan after the irascible Mad Hatter shoves him into a porcelain teapot painted with the city’s skyline. Time has stopped in his homeland, where he’s been...
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