For those who enjoyed reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister’s Keeper
MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life…on the inside! And she’s losing.
From the ashes rises the phoenix. As a family descends into an abyss of pain, so Mackenzie fights to discover her own way out of the overwhelming circumstances of her sibling’s death.
“Susan Wingate is gifted at capturing these shifting nuances as events continue to pull characters apart and put them back together like puzzles, albeit in a different way. HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS carries the reader through this process, creating a powerful and memorable saga that is hard to put down and lingers in the mind long after the story is over.” -Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review
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Sexual Content - 4/5
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Violence - 4/5
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Language - 5/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 3/5
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Summary
From: Carol Pennington
Book Title: How the Deer Moon Hungers
Book Author: Susan Wingate
What do you like about this book:
Mac is a normal teenage girl living with her Mom and much younger sister on a Pacific Northwest Island. Her life quickly becomes anything but normal when her little sister is hit by a drunk driver.
This is a coming of age story that is both intriguing and captivating. However I found the language, violence, and sexual content much too strong for me. I advise caution before reading this book. I would only recommend it for the very mature reader who does not mind this sort of content.
Your ratings of the level of sex, violence, language and drug/alcohol use on a scale of 1-5.
Sex:4
Violence:4
Language:5
Drug/Alcohol use:3