Hang the Moon Summary
Jeannette Walls

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Hang the Moon Overview

In Jeannette Walls novel Hang the Moon, protagonist and first person narrator Sallie Kincaid is forced to leave her home in Caywood, Virginia, when her stepmother Jane accuses her of trying to kill her half brother Eddie. Instead of defending his daughter, Sallie's father the Duke sides with Jane and sends Sallie to live with her aunt in a rural mountain town. Nine years later, when the Duke calls Sallie home again, she is thrust into an unfamiliar and unpredictable domain. Set during the Prohibition era, the novel explores themes including memory, loneliness, and love. 

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