When a Beverly
Hills veterinarian arrives in the small town
of DeClare, Oklahoma, he has little idea that his
interest in finding his birth mother will lead him
on a trip into the past that will change his life
forever. Shoot the Moon is the engagingly
well-told tale of a young man's quest to find out
who he is and what really cut his mother's life
so short.
While Shoot the Moon is not
a road trip book per se, I found it to
be a wonderful accompaniment on a trip I took recently.
It's a story of personal odyssey, and Nellie Letts
does a great job of taking her readers -- or, in
this case, listeners -- on the same circuitous journey
her protagonist must follow to unearth his family
secrets. The characters he meets along the way range
from a bullying redneck sheriff and a femme fatale
newscaster to a gay lawyer and an enterprising woman
who owns the local pool hall. All are interesting,
multi-faceted personalities that turn what might
easily have been an ordinary whodunit into...[Read
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