Jeanette Walls is best-known for The Glass Castle, her 2005 memoir about her nomadic upbringing. It won multiple awards and spent an astonishing 700 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.
Her latest book is Hang the Moon, and the Iron Book Group will read and discuss it in March 2025.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral.
When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.
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Copies of Hang the Moon can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s available digitally as an ebook (through Overdrive/Libby) and an audiobook (through Overdrive/Libby).
An in-person discussion of Hang the Moon will be held at the library on Tuesday, March 11, at 7:00 PM. No registration is required, so please join us if you’d like to be part of the discussion.
Published on March 4, 2025.
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