Hang the Moon

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From Jeannette Walls, thebestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-eraVirginia

Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody whod 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 twentieth 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 the Duke's daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mothers 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. Thats 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.

'Hang the Moon is Jeannette Walls's masterwork. Epic in scope, the novel is a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American South . . . The prose is so elegant and so close to the bone you feel Sallie's heartbeat. Glorious.' Adriana Trigiani, author of The Good Left Undone

'Does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit.'Dani Shapiro on The Glass Castle

'Like J.D. Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself.'Sunday IndependentonThe Glass Castle

Author Bio

Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir,The Glass Castle, has been aNew York Timesbestseller for more than eight years. She is also the authorof the instantNew York TimesbestsellersThe Silver StarandHalf Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors ofThe New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.