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Alice Hoffman
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Turtle Moon |
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English |
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Paperback |
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288 |
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1997-09-01 |
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0425161285 |
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Berkley |
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0.55 pounds |
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0.81 x 5.09 x 8.03 inches |
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Reprint |
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Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building - the self-styled "meanest boy" in town - also disappears. In pursuit of the baby, the boy and the killer, are Keith's divorced mother and a cop who himself was once considered the meanest boy in town. Their search leads them down the humid byways of a Florida populated almost exclusively by people from somewhere else; emotional refugees seeking sanctuary along the swampy coast.
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Pretentia (South Korea) (2008/09/02):
"Welcome to Verity - home of more divorced women from New York than any other town in the state of Florida. Where Lucy Rosen has moved to get away from here ex. Where Officer Julian Cash watches over the town with a a fierce German shepherd and an even fiercer expression. Where Lucy's son Keith hates everything; the heat, the school, and sometimes his mother. He can't wait to get away. And then he does, when a woman is murdered and her baby is left behind. Keith takes off witht eh baby, Lucy and John take off after him, and Turtle Moon takes off in a funny, touching, and exhilarating journey..."I think this book is mostly about people coming to terms with things - themselves, their pasts, and each other. It was an enjoyable and moving story.
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