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Book Review of Moon Women

Moon Women
Moon Women
Author: Pamela Duncan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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From the inside flap . . . "In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots; matriarch Mrvelle Moon, who's starting to lose her grip on the world after more than eighy years of life; her middle-aged 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 lvie 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 either of them away; and her womanizing ex-husband has been coming around again, dredging up the past."