Goodreads asked Ellyn Bache:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Ellyn Bache I'm re-reading "Turtle Moon," my favorite novel by my favorite author, Alice Hoffman. I'd first read it many years ago and wanted to see if I still liked it as much. I surely do. For me, this is her book with the perfect combination of realism and magical realism, where her language and the rhythm of her sentences evokes a whole range of emotions steeping in the brilliantly-evoked Florida heat. I have loved many of Hoffman's books, but I think this will always be at the top of my list. And yes, I believed absolutely in the angel trapped in the gumbo-limbo tree.

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