A Year of Full Moons

By Madelyn Arnold

Book Overview

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 are faced with the responsibility of running the household and taking care of their siblings and their decidedly eccentric, sometimes brilliant, and always difficult father. The nation's mounting tensions over civil rights and the Vietnam Warfinally begin to infiltrate Summit at the same time that Jos begins to act upon her secret passion for women. During the course of this eventful year, Jos realizes that only one thing-her intellect-can provide escape from the stifling family dynamic and small town in which she is trapped.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312287240
• ISBN13: 9780312287245
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Breath-taking!

I have read this book three times and bought it as gifts for many of my friends. If you are looking for something fast-paced, adventurous, warm and funny- look no more. This book has it all. You'll find yourself having trouble putting it down!

Year of Full Moons

~This book is at times strange, confusing and increadably infuriating and at times sweet and even joyful. This certainly wouldn't be a story I would give to my parents to make them understand better about me being a lesbian, and it does contain some sex so I wouldn't recommend it to kids, either. The language is at times really confusing but I found it better towards the end (I'm not exactly sure whether I myself got used to it, or it's just that the first chapters were written with a lot less~~ experience than the latter ones). Nonetheless, I really enjoyed this book since even beyond all her cynicism the heroine still had the sort of excuse I guess for her darkened vision of this world and she showed times and times again that she can be quite tender and loving.~