“A Powerful Novel of Love and Loss”
This ambitious novel opens one year after 9/11, in 2002, and weaves the stories of three generations and three wars — the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq. Hoffman demonstrates through three convincing female characters the effect of those wars on women who must cope with varieties of loss. – Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio review
Hoffman’s generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life. – Reader’s Digest: 7 Great Books From Small Presses
Roy Hoffman uses his rich cast of characters to illustrate the diversity of the modern, multiethnic South; but “Hoffman’s Gulf Coast is a place where traditionalists and newcomers alike find their lives framed by the region’s timeless themes of war and loss, love and alienation, sin and redemption, and, of course, by hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico and from within the southern heart. – Howell Raines
A novel of war, women, and weather, Roy Hoffman’s Come Landfall is, above all, a book of passionate and permanent connecting. It will seize your heart and not let go.
– Sena Jeter Naslund
This powerful novel of love and loss is Roy Hoffman at his finest. – Frye Gaillard
Read an excerpt: Mobile Bay Magazine, South Writ Large
Listen to an interview on “The Reading Life,” WWNO, New Orleans
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“The author of three novels and two nonfiction collections, Hoffman is that rarest of writers,” wrote book critic John Sledge, “a true man of letters equally at home in the realms of the imaginative and the factual.”
Harper Lee, in a rare endorsement, praised “Chicken Dreaming Corn”: “Read this novel to find, from Europe and the past, characters who represent some of the best aspects of our Southern heritage. A story of great appeal in prose lean and clean. Congratulations to Roy Hoffman for his fine work.” Sample Audio Edition
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Roy Hoffman
A native of Mobile, Ala., Roy worked as a writer for 20 years in New York City before returning south with his family as a journalist and novelist based in Fairhope, on Mobile Bay. He’s the author of five books, fiction and nonfiction, driven by place, character and story.
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Selected Writings
New York Times Essays:
“Remembering to Pray”
“Dancing Across the Generations”
“A Reunion With My Younger Hitchhiking Self”
“An Empty House Where Time Stands Still”
“Tom’s World”
“Greetings from Brooklyn, Alabama”
“My Own Private New York”
“Long Lives the Mockingbird”
“A Contract for Watermelons”
New York Times Op/Ed:
“Leaving Alabama Behind,”
“Spanning the Gulf”
“Two Tons of Morality”
New York Times Book Review:
“Life After Life,”
“If Sons then Heirs,”
“Bitter in the Mouth”
“Between Heaven and Here”
Recalling a Dad, a Sister
“Windows: A Son Remembers”
“An Independent Woman”
Nonfiction storytelling:
“Deliver Us From Evil,” 3-part series
“Beyond the Convent Walls”
“A Day With Honor Flight WWII Veterans”
The Creative Process
“My Unexpected South”
“Why I Write”