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The Moon Sisters: A Novel – Deckle Edge

Author: Visit Amazon's Therese Walsh Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0307461602 | Format: EPUB

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“Both heartbreaking and hopeful, the Moon sisters’ journey is no quixotic quest, and readers will find themselves completely immersed in their transformative search. This magical, moving tale is not to be missed.” –Booklist, starredreview

“Luminous… Walsh explores how the [Moon] sisters’ experience of the outside world transforms their views of each other and themselves, in a book packed with invention and rich characterizations.” –Publishers Weekly

“Therese Walsh has done it again.  She is fast becoming known for delivering lush, emotional and deeply atmospheric reads that never disappoint.  Her second book, The Moon Sisters, is a magical journey of grief, hope and the power of family bonds.  It is a novel for the senses, a harmony of sounds, sights, scents and tastes, the likes of which you have never experienced before.  You won't want to miss this one.” –Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Lost Lake
 
“The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh shimmers on the precipice where the grief-stricken teeter between loss and recovery, a place that often resembles madness. Sisters Olivia and Jazz battle as they hold each other tight in this touching coming of age tale that weighs family loyalty against distinctive truths. Walsh leavens magic realism with humor, balances enchantment and pragmatic truth, and stirs them into a poignant family story.” –Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer’s Daughters
 
“Emotionally taut and intricately woven, The Moon Sisters takes us on a dreamlike journey that is at once literal and literary. A story of family ties stretched to their limits and the underlying wound that bothbinds and breaks them. Therese Walsh has created a compelling read I couldn't put down and a world of authentic travelers who linger long beyond the final pages. A tale of true sisterhood.” –Brunonia Barry, New York Times and International bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places

“The Moon Sisters is a novel to fall in love with… to break your heart over… to linger with and think about after you’ve finished the last of Walsh’s lovely, singing, heart-wrenching words. There is magic in the story and in the language itself and you’ll find yourself wanting to buy a copy for your sister, or your best friend… just so you have someone to share it with.” –M.J. Rose, international bestselling author of Seduction and The Book of Lost Fragrances

About the Author

THERESE WALSH is the author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy and the cofounder of Writer Unboxed. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children.
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Crown (March 4, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307461602
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307461605
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
THE MOON SISTERS, by Therese Walsh, is a great story, well told, with grief, and biscuits, and tattoos. It is the story of two young women, Olivia and Jazz, who've lost their mother. On the heels of her death, they are unanchored from their place inside the world, their sense of home and all its easy truths. Olivia, the dreamer, sets off for Cranberry Glades with their mother's ashes, in search of the will-o-the-wisp ghost lights that could set everything to rights. Jazz, her more practical sister, tries to stop the trip before it starts. When that fails, she goes along to keep the journey inside the boundaries of sense and self-control.

But it's not that kind of trip. The path these sisters take is hard and wild and ragged. Along the way, Olivia and Jazz fight like demons -- and hold to each other like salvation. This is a novel about grief and persistence, about dreams gone awry and dreams that must be followed to the end. It is a tale both lyrical and biting, moving through the swell and ebb of loss and mourning. It is not an easy trip, and the end is anything but predictable.

Like the journey itself, Walsh's characters are complex and satisfying. From a half-blind synesthete to a train-hopping tattoo-boy, they are freshly inked, unique. At the same time, they are utterly familiar, a mirror held to the best (and craziest) parts of any family. You've never met these girls before but, already, you know them. Their voices resonate off the page. Olivia, the synesthete, thinks that "what-ifs . . . tasted an awful lot like cheese from a can." While Jazz believes that, "Some things were meant to fly, and others were bound by their roots.
Therese Walsh is no stranger to exploring sibling relationships. She did it in her book, "The Last Will of Moira Leahy" with the identical twins Maeve and Moira. And now, in her newest work, she revisits the theme of sister bonding with 22-year-old Jazz Moon and her younger sister, Olivia.

The atmosphere in "The Moon Sisters" is one of gloom as Jazz and Olivia have grown up weighed down by their mother's bouts of depression and when she dies, they both have difficulty coming to terms not only with her death but also with each other. Jazz is the doer, the sensible, down-to-earth sister. Olivia, though legally blind, is impulsive, irresponsible and the dreamer, able to experience the world in ways Jazz could only imagine. Olivia has synesthesia, a condition that enables her to associate words with taste, sounds with images and sight with smells. The death of their mother exacerbates the tension that has already existed between them, but when Olivia sets up to travel on her own to the Monongahela Forest to fulfill her mother's life-long wish to see a will-o'-the-wisp, Jazz, being the responsible one, has no other choice than to reluctantly join her.

The journey is an opportunity for author Therese Walsh to dwell into these two young women's childhood memories. Jazz and Olivia take turns as narrators of the story, letting readers know how each of them is being misunderstood by the other one, how each experienced their mother and how differently her death has affected each of them. As much as "The Moon Sisters" is a story about sibling ties and rivalry, it is also about the parent-child relationship. The themes of "the good daughter" and of parental favoritism are seen from the different points of view of Jazz and Olivia.

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