44 pages • 1 hour read
Alice HoffmanA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Content Warning: The source material deals with death, torture, and antisemitism, as well as hate crimes and cruelty to animals. Descriptions of violence and grief feature prominently.
The village of Encaleflora, named after the lime flower that grows there, has been the home of Estrella’s family for more than 500 years. As the book begins, Estrella smells the burning pyre coming from the Plaza at the center of the village, and her neighbor and best friend, Catalina, runs over with her so they can see what is causing it. The two friends join the crowd outside of a palace that once belonged to a duke and see that soldiers have made a pyre to burn books. Estrella watches the soldiers laughing at a crying rabbi who wears a red circle on his coat to mark his status as Jewish. His books are being burned as part of Spain’s suppression of Jewish books, medical knowledge, and alleged magic.
By Alice Hoffman
Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman
Green Angel
Alice Hoffman
Half Magic
Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker, Alice Hoffman
Local Girls
Alice Hoffman
Nightbird
Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman
The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour
Alice Hoffman
The Marriage Of Opposites
Alice Hoffman
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman
The River King
Alice Hoffman
The Rules of Magic
Alice Hoffman
The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman