Helpful Score: 4
This was one of those books that when I had finished reading it, I found myself wondering how the characters were doing because they had seemed that real to me.
Helpful Score: 2
One of the best I have read............and trust me, I have read many books!
Helpful Score: 2
From Library Journal
Add newcomer Duncan to your reading list of Southern women writers. Set in western North Carolina, this first novel follows three generations of Moon women during the months of granddaughter Ashley's unplanned pregnancy. While both male and female characters resonate, this novel is definitely about the women as they struggle with relationships, roles, and their place in the world. Dialog is true to the region, and intertwined throughout are 80-year-old matriarch Marvelle's memories of her family and its secrets. Duncan expertly demonstrates that ordinary lives are worth illuminating. Her novel should make her mentor, author Lee Smith, proud and provide strong competition to another new regional novelist, Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler). Strongly recommended for all fiction collections.
Add newcomer Duncan to your reading list of Southern women writers. Set in western North Carolina, this first novel follows three generations of Moon women during the months of granddaughter Ashley's unplanned pregnancy. While both male and female characters resonate, this novel is definitely about the women as they struggle with relationships, roles, and their place in the world. Dialog is true to the region, and intertwined throughout are 80-year-old matriarch Marvelle's memories of her family and its secrets. Duncan expertly demonstrates that ordinary lives are worth illuminating. Her novel should make her mentor, author Lee Smith, proud and provide strong competition to another new regional novelist, Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler). Strongly recommended for all fiction collections.
Helpful Score: 2
The individual vernacular voices of the characters really resonate in Duncan's prose. You can hear her characters talking just as if you were sitting at their table with your own cup of coffee.
Helpful Score: 2
I enjoyed this book. A nice read about mothers and daughters, multigenerational, and how life has a way of circling about on you. I really liked the different generations and the viewpoints from each.
