Sambuca -- I love Alice Hoffman.  I especially love the way she writes teenagers.  She always gives them a beautiful inner life... they are real people with real thoughts and not trivial and superficial, like most teenagers are portrayed.  Seventh Heaven is still my favorite of hers.  I'm almost at the end of The Bonesetter's Daughter and although it's not my favorite Amy Tan novel, I'm really enjoying it.  I don't often read novels... I have this concentration problem!!!