A Year of Full Moons: A Novel

by Madelyn Arnold

Overview

Lambda Award winner Madelyn Arnold combines history, class, sex, and family in A Year of Full Moons, a tour-de-force about the coming of age and coming into power of a young girl in a hardscrabble southern town during the early 1960s.

Brilliant, tomboyish Josephine Margaret Butler--better known as Jos--is the second oldest child in a large, poor family living in provincial Summit, Kentucky, in 1963. After her mother has a miscarriage and retreats into herself, Jos and her sister Ellie have to run the household and take care of their five younger siblings and their decidedly eccentric, sometimes brilliant, and always difficult father.

In the coming year, the nation's mounting tensions over civil rights and the Vietnam War finally begin to infiltrate Summit at the same time that Jos begins to act upon her secret passion for women. Trapped in a damaging family dynamic and in a town that is violently resisting the sweeping social changes of the outside world, Jos realizes that only one thing--her intellect--can provide a means of escape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466823419
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/07/2002
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	573 KB

About the Author

Madelyn Arnold is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the novel Bird Eyes and story collection On Ships at Sea. She lives in Seattle.

Madelyn Arnold won the 1988 Lambda Literary Award for Best First Novel for Bird-Eyes. Her other books include the novel A Year of Full Moons and short story collection On Ships at Sea. She lives in Seattle.