What Are You
Reading?
What Are You Reading? A project sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library District to encourage reading and book discussion in our community. Would you like to share your favorite books with other readers? Please send your name, occupation or grade level, book author and title, and a brief statement about the book and why you liked it to Kate Joswick, [email protected].
Reviewer’s Name: Cheryl Goodman Reviewer’s Occupation: Retired Book Title: Hang the Moon Book’s Author: Jeannette Walls The novel Hang the Moon is set in the Prohibition Era of East Appalachia, Virginia. The protagonist is Sallie Kincaid who is born into a life of privilege as the daughter of Duke Kincaid, the wealthiest and most powerful man in Clairborne County. After the death of Sallie’s mother, Duke remarries and they have a son Eddie. After Sallie endangers young Eddie in one of her escapades, she is sent to live with an aunt. When she is allowed to return to the Big House after nine years, she becomes involved in the Duke’s enterprises, the most profitable of which is bootlegging.
Jeannette Walls is such a great storyteller.... I loved her memoir The Glass Castle and I assumed I would also love her novel Hang the Moon as well. Her stunning writing remains the same with compelling characters, family dynamics, power struggles, secrets and most of all, the power of love and forgiveness.
