The Ice Queen
Author: Alice Hoffman
A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman’s superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: “I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the….Read More
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