false 49047 2 The New Moons Arms is a mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity, has renamed herself in a way she feels is most fitting. She's a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause. With this physical change of life comes a return of a special power for finding lost things, something she hasn't been able to do since childhood. A little tingling in the hands then a massive hotflash, and suddenly objects, even whole buildings, lost to her since childhood begin showing up around Calamity.One of the lost things Calamity recovers is a small boy who washes up on the shore outside her house after a rainstorm. She takes this bruised but cheerful 4-year-old under her wing and grows attached to him, a process that awakens all the old memories, frustrations and mysteries around her own mother and father. She'll learn that this young boy's family is the most unusual group she's ever encountered-and they want their son back. 47982 23 2 2007 The New Moon's Arms total:65|5:17|4:30|3:10|2:6|1:2| 65 249 150 16 4 1 false false Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 10:49:45 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 11:17:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Oct 11 13:55:26 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 13:55:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:37:37 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:57:55 -0700 2009
Who says a 50+ librarian has to lead a quiet life? Calamity, the resident of a fictitious Caribbean island, has just buried her elderly father, meets a man (but does she like him?), is fighting with her daughter, clashes with her grandson over a school science project, ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 30 13:08:03 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 13:44:55 -0700 2007 The day Chastity’s mother’s empty rowboat drifted ashore, Chastity stoppe...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 10:46:11 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 10:50:14 -0700 2007
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The book is strongest, in my opinion, where it focuses on Calamity's life issues, and weakest in the 'magical realism' part, mainly because these parts of the story seem to disso...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jan 04 12:08:47 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 12:09:05 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Fri Nov 14 06:08:45 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 06:11:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 20:49:33 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 19:06:22 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 10 19:53:08 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 19:53:41 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 07 12:21:47 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 28 20:15:23 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Nov 04 14:33:58 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 14:34:26 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 03:37:34 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 03:38:25 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 20:19:15 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:19:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 17 11:56:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:56:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 10:48:45 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:48:45 -0700 2009