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Half Moon Lake
Half Moon Lake | Kirsten Alexander
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'They said he was their boy. And so he was . . .'In 1913, on a summer?s day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns.The boy?s mysterious disappearance from the family?s lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair.Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports? own friends, take sides.As the tramp?s kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they?d ever dreamed . . .Half Moon Lake is Kirsten Alexander?s compelling debut novel, about the parent-child bond, identity, and what it means to be part of a family.
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Suzie
Half Moon Lake | Kirsten Alexander
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Where I learn so much about racism in America's Deep South while reading a book about parent-child bonds. Thank you Kirsten Alexander for writing Half Moon Lake.
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Madison91
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The crazy thing is the true story this is based on is more alluring than this fiction book. The true story is a wild series of events I‘ve always been so intrigued about, but this book is one of the most boring things I‘ve ever read, it was a chore to get through.