Mia Jacobs lives in an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden. As a child she sneaks into the closest towns library, befriends the librarian and a whole new world is open to her through pages. Opportunity presents itself for her to leave the oppressive community after her mother dies and she strikes out and away from it but her past comes back to haunt her.
This was an...interesting book. It covers oppression/cult upbring, time travel, coming of age and longing. I will say that Alice Hoffman is a beautiful writer. Her style is very ethereal and fantasy like but grounded in reality. The premise of the book was intriguing however she kinda lost me after the main character left the cult and grew up and found a cabin in the woods and met an author from the 1800s and has a romantic affair with him. I feel like the author wants the reader to feel the longing and connection with books but felt that she took it too far with a relationship. It didn't make sense it leaves you feeling discombobulated.
Overall I appreciated the writing style and the premise but in the end probably would recommend this book.
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