Come Landfall

"Hoffman's generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life." —Reader's Digest

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. When the reader counts the cost, this idea is inevitable: aging and accident are adversary enough—surely humans today can find a better solution to differences than killing each other in wars.
—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman

“This powerful novel of love and loss is Roy Hoffman at his finest. First as a journalist, and now as a consummate writer of fiction, he has sketched the life of his native South in colors more vivid than black and white. Against the backdrop of three American
wars, Hoffman writes of immigrants new to our shores, and wounds and memories that all of us share. The compelling characters of Come Landfall lead us—painfully, often bravely—through the haunted geography of the heart.”
— Frye Gaillard, author of The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir and Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

"Roy Hoffman uses his rich cast of characters to illustrate the diversity of the modern, multiethnic South; but Hoffman's Gulf Coast is also 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, author of Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis and My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered

"In this love story reminiscent of Water for Elephants, Roy Hoffman has brought to life a community of vibrant, life-loving women. These are women who reside in the margins, like the women we pass every single day as we go about the business of living. Come Landfall beautifully highlights the tensions that comes with caring for the aged and the heaviness of that responsibility upon the young. The hopes and heartaches of Angela, Cam, and Nana are riveting and compelling in every way."
—Karen Zacharias, author of After the Flag Has Been Folded and Mother of Rain