THE BLACK BIRD HOUSE

Alice Hoffman tells the story of Blackbird House, a small farm on Cape Cod, with each chapter about a different set of the house's inhabitants. (Anita 2003, Pp.308)It was built by a family in the early 1800s, but disaster strikes during a fishing trip, leaving only one son alive and the pet blackbird turned white, which would haunt the farm for the rest of the novel. Later, Blackbird House is owned by a man who lost a leg to a huge halibut, and who falls in love with a widow who wears red shoes, the mark of a ...