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9781424158317
A tale of love, laughter, and betrayal down on the family farm Though it casts a glorious light As it travels through the night, The moon is dead– It has no life of its own. A lonely farm wife feels she is a pale moon reflecting the light of her demanding husband. Struggling to retain possession of her own soul, Sharon Rainbow finds solace in writing poetry among the graves of the Ancestors where she rules as queen. While Charlie Red frolics with his coonhunting buddies, a stranger in the Stillwater community rattles the ancestral bones of Wildwood as he parts the stormy clouds for Sharon’s light to emerge. In a climatic night of reckoning, the howling dogs draw Big Daddy home from the hunt, secrets are revealed in the moonlit shadows and Sharon faces a triumphant moment of choosing. Wildwood: Confessions of a Moon Wife is a tale of love, laughter and betrayal down on the family farm and the third novel in the Rainbow trilogy. Featured are pages from Sharon’s Scrapbook of Poems (Despair, Desire, Devotion).Billingsby, Joyce is the author of 'Wildwood: Confessions of a Moon Wife', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424158317 and ISBN 1424158311.
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