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Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub /
A LibraryReads Pick for March 2023 From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls is from my NetGalley shelf of advanced reading copies (ARCs) and will be published at the end of the month. Narrated by the feisty but powerless Sally Kincaid, daughter of the most powerful man in the county – known as “the Duke” – Hang the Moon is a first-person story of a dysfunctional family in Virginia in the 1920s.
Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris
Massachusetts Book Awards 2012 Must-Read Fiction
Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s “Scout.”
For the MassBook Reading Challenge this month, I’m reading Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris – a MassBook Awards Must-Read Fiction honoree the year it was published (2012). It’s also on my 2023 TBR Pile Challenge list.
Massachusetts author Mary McGarry Morris may be best known for her novels Songs in Ordinary Time, Vanished, and A Dangerous Woman. Light from a Distant Star is a first-person coming-of-age story in the voice of thirteen-year-old Nellie, an inquisitive, talkative people-pleasing middle child who feels responsible for the well-being of her family and for their reputation in their gossipy small town, but is also confused by adults’ behavior and the murky rules others seem to live by.
Unnoticed herself as she closely listens and observes, often without understanding, Nellie worries about keeping her older sister Ruth’s secrets; protecting her quiet younger brother Henry from bullies; her parents’ troubled marriage; and her family’s financial difficulties, and is unsure how to act when her family comes under even closer scrutiny after a scandalous murder.
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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Forgot to mention It Ends with Us last week — my first Colleen Hoover! I skimmed a bit, but did read to the end, which may be enough, although the story does have a sequel, It Starts with Us.
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