The Big Beautiful
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The critically acclaimed author returns to the North Carolina landscape she knows so well with this gloriously written sequel to Moon Women.
On an eastbound North Carolina interstate highway, the mountains and her hometown far behind, Cassandra Moon realizes that she has not only broken the heart of the one man who's ever asked her to marry—on their wedding day, no less—but she's driven the limousine into the ground, gotten "skunk drunk" on the champagne, and has somehow managed to get herself stuck in the sunroof while still in her wedding gown. Caught in a whirlwind of taffeta and tulle, heartache and second guesses, Cassandra desperately needs some peace of mind. When she arrives in the coastal town of Salter Path—disheveled and in the company of a mysterious red-haired seafaring man—Cassandra knows for sure that her life has taken a turn she can't quite understand. But the people Cassandra encounters on this unexpected odyssey will share with her the hurts and hopes of a lifetime, and she may finally realize that getting lost in this oceanside town, in the memories and dreams of its people, is the only way she'll be found.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this sequel to Moon Women (2001), Duncan serves up the heartfelt if slow-moving story of Cassandra Moon, the little sister who has grown up some, but still has a ways to go. The novel opens on Cassandra's wedding day, which sees Cassandra dashing from the church and speeding away alone in the limo as her intended and family gawk. Fleeing her stifling hometown in mountainous western North Carolina, Cassandra motors east in the limo, winding up in Salter Path, a sleepy beach community where she connects with who she really is and finds, naturally, her true love. Duncan has a way with the pretty passages and sweet moments readers of inspirational women's fiction crave.
