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	Moon Women Author: Pamela Duncan
	Book Information Publisher: Piatkus Book Type: Paperback Rating: ISBN-13: 9780749933241 - ISBN-10: 0749933240 Publication Date: 2002

There are three generations of Moon women living in the hills of Madison County, North Carolina. Cranky matriarch Marvelle Moon is just starting to lose her footing in the world after more than eighty years of life. Ruth Ann and Cassandra are her middle-aged daughters; and then there's Ruth Ann's nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried and pregnant.

Marvelle and Ashley both need a place to live and Ruth Ann is unable to turn either of them away. As she grapples with the changes brought on by having both mother and daughter live under her roof - not to mention an ex-husband who's not at all sure he wants to say divorced - the people she loves are trying to figure things out for themselves. Ashley's baby is coming, whether she's ready or not. Cassandra, who has always hovered around the edges of her family, slowly starts to fee her way toward a life of her own. And Marvelle privately contemplates a long-held secret that would change everything for all of them - if only the knew ...

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