A Thousand Moons -- Sebastian Barry

<b><b>"A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world." <b>--Hermione Lee, <i>The New York Review of Books</i></b> <p/></b>From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of <i>Days Without End </i>comes a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War</b> <p/>Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive parents John Cole and Thomas McNulty, whose story Barry told in his acclaimed previous novel<i> Days Without End</i>, she forges a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. <p/>Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the Civil War, and the fragile harmony of her family is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Exquisitely written, <i>A Thousand Moons </i>is a stirring, poignant story of love and redemption, of one woman's journey and her determination to write her own future.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Sebastian Barry<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 04/20/2021<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.42lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780735223110<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Sebastian Barry </b>was born in Dublin in 1955. He is the first novelist to twice win the Costa Book of the Y