The New Moon's Arms

By: Nalo Hopkinson

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Synopsis: First it's her mother's missing gold brooch. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn't seen in years. Followed by an entire grove of cashew trees. When objects begin appearing out of nowhere, Calamity knows that the special gift she has not felt since childhood has returned-her ability to find lost things. Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of life's biggest dramas. First is the death of her father, who raised her alone until a pregnant Calamity rejected him when she was sixteen years old. The second drama: she's starting menopause. Now when she has a hot flash and feels a tingling in her hands, she knows it's a lost object calling to her. Then she finds something unexpected: a four-year-old boy washes up on the shore, his dreadlocked hair matted with shells. Calamity decides to take the orphaned child into her care, which brings unexpected upheaval into her life and further strains her relationship with her adult daughter. Fostering this child will force her to confront all the memories of her own childhood-and the disappearance of her mother so many years before.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 336 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780759517585
Related ISBNs:: 9780446576918
Publisher:: Grand Central Publishing
Date of Addition:: 07/10/21
Copyrighted By:: Nalo Hopkinson
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Parenting and Family, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.