Adeline, the heroine of this short story, comes of age in front of us and navigates her father's death, big change, darkness, loneliness, family, friendships, and redemption in a few short pages. What more could a reader want? ( )

Hoffman has a talent for making the environment a character. Short Story via Amazon. ( )

Read this for the prompt "shortest book on the list" and it was very good - would love to have had a longer book but it's just a short story. First Alice Hoffman I have read and plan to read Practical Magic next. ( )

A poignant short story but powerful with so few words. I love the lighthouse setting as grieving daughter and adulterous widowed mother took on a new life.

This is part of Amazon Inheritance collection. ( )

To the Lighthouse
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook edition (December 2019)

This was excellent historical fiction / coming of age story.

Everything My Mother Taught Me is 1 of 5 short stories in the Amazon Original Inheritance Series. Buried or born, secrets are a family tradition. In this collection of emotionally resonant short stories, five fiction masters reveal that what is past is passed—inside households, across generations, and within the families of our own making. The time has come to share, and to bear, the consequences. ( )