The Collected Novels Volume Two: The Foretelling, White Horses, Angel Landing, and Seventh Heaven

As Newsweek said of her novel Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman has a "gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is." Whether in an ancient tribe of female warriors or a sleepy Long Island suburb in the late 1950s, the novels in this collection carve out a piece of that uniquely Hoffmanesque landscape—somewhere between magic and reality, the mythical and the mundane.

The Foretelling: The "spare, compelling coming-of-age story" of Rain, born out of sorrow but destined to lead her tribe of Amazon warriors ( Kirkus Reviews).

White Horses: A "haunting" story about the powerful impact the fairy-tale fantasies of girlhood have on a young woman as she struggles with growing up and accepting the truth about her family ( The New Yorker).

Angel Landing: An explosion at a nuclear power plant changes the lives of Natalie, a therapist; her activist boyfriend, Carter; her eccentric aunt Minnie; and the man who walks into her office with an incredible confession to make in a novel that is Alice Hoffman at her "heartbreaking best" ( The Washington Post).

Seventh Heaven: The arrival of a divorced mother and her two young sons transforms a Long Island suburb during the summer of 1959, in a novel that's "part American Graffiti, part early Updike" (T he New York Times).