"Nuanced and lovely, written in the pitch-perfect voice of a narrator aching for a self, Song of the Orange Moons is an enchanting debut novel from an exciting new writer." --Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange MountainChildhood best friends Rebecka and Helen navigate the sometimes humorous, sometimes painful, path through puberty and their budding friendship with the prickly widow next door, Adelle. Time and distance test the bonds of their friendship, especially as Rebecka and Helen search for romantic love. In this delicate and self-conscious journey to womanhood, all three narrators explore the boundaries of identity and acceptance in a variety of places--a charismatic church, a Depression-era orphanage, a moonlit Savannah park, an orthodox Jewish boarding school--and discover the enduring power of friendship.
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