Moon Women - Softcover

Duncan, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440236487 ISBN 13: 9780440236481

Publisher: Dell, 2008

Synopsis

In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s starting to lose her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried, and three months pregnant.

Despite Ruth Ann’s best efforts to live a life that’s all her own, her family is coming together around her. First there’s her womanizing ex-husband, who has been hovering again, dredging up the past. And then there’s Ashley, who has spent nineteen years running furiously away from home, now finding herself on a strange journey with her unraveling grandmother. And Marvelle, slowly losing touch with reality, privately contemplating the story of her life and the secret that would change everything for everyone—if they only knew....

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North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried, and three months pregnant. Despite Ruth Ann’s best efforts to live a life that’s all her own, her family is coming together around her. Marvelle and Ashley need a place to live and Ruth Ann is unable to turn them away; and her womanizing ex-husband has been coming around again, dredging up the past. Now a flurry of outbursts, emotions, and outrages is shattering Ruth Ann’s separate peace.

For here is Ashley, who has spent nineteen years running furiously away from home, now finding herself on a strange journey with her unraveling grandmother. And here is Cassandra, protected by layers of obesity and loneliness, wondering how to put magic back in her life. And Marvelle, slowly losing

From the Back Cover

“In the tradition of Fannie Flagg and Rebecca Wells comes [this] Southern-fried debut....Duncan shows promise as a from-the-heart, quirky
storyteller.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Genuinely poignant...alternately funny and touching and sad.”
—Raleigh News and Observer (N.C.)

Edition details

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0440236487
• ISBN 13: 9780440236481
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512