Green Angel
I was disappointed at how small a book Green Angel by Alice Hoffman was when it came in from Amazon, but size is certainly not always a indication of worth. This
book evokes a lot of adjectives: haunting, aching, lonely, sad,
painful–but in the end, it also says hope and rebirth and renewal.
Quotes: “I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember
cut like pieces of glass. A song, a memory, a blade of grass, a white
dress, a dream, all of it as painful as the deepest wound” (50). “She
was so busy forgetting, she couldn’t take a single step into the
future” (97). “I saw then that the ink was green [not black]. It was
the ink of a sister, a woman with long, dark hair, a man who was
strong. It was the ink of a witness, of a girl of sixteen who had no
idea what the future might bring. Green as the world we once knew”
(115).
I too love Alice Hoffman. I see you’ve read Incantation. That’s on my “to read” list.
What’s your favorite Alice Hoffman book?
I thought it was a bit disappointing in size. But the cover was what sparked my interest, and then i read the story. It wasn’t very action packed, but relates a lot to personal feelings people go through. I personally didn’t like it a whole bunch, because it kept dragging on over things that wren’t that important. But it is a teacher apreciated book, and infact i’m doing an essay on it. Even though not many of my peers(i.e. kids over 16) enjoyed the story, but it is bound to be another “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” (not greatly eventful, but understood).