A Red Heart of Memories Nina Kiriki Hoffman,
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 0441007686
Edition: Paperback; 2000-12-01
Summary:
She doesn't write multivolume fantasy epics--what Nina Kiriki Hoffman
does write are haunting, character-driven short stories and novels.
Matt (Matilda) Black, one of the two main characters in A Red Heart
of Memories, appeared in two previous Hoffman novellas: Unmasking and
Home for Christmas. Matt is a wanderer with the power to speak to
inanimate objects and watch other people's thoughts and dreams. She
meets a wandering witch, Edmund Reynolds. "Mostly I just wander from
one place to the next," said Edmund, "waiting to be needed for
something, then trying to figure out what it is." Spirit tells Edmund
he can help Matt, even if she doesn't want him hanging around, and
Matt finds that she can help Edmund in return. Hoffman's fantasy is
very much in the spirit of Jonathan Carroll's The Marriage of Sticks
and Peter S. Beagle's Tamsin. She's written for children and her
books are suitable for young adult readers, but don't be fooled.
They're sophisticated, well-crafted stories written in a distinctive,
uncynical voice and filled with magical reality. In 1994, Hoffman won
the Bram Stoker First Novel Award for The Thread That Binds the
Bones, and both The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) and A Red Heart
of Memories were nominated for the World Fantasy Award. As of 2001,
Hoffman had been nominated for Nebula Awards four times. --Nona Vero
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