Song of the Orange Moons

In this coming-of-age novel, Rebecka, Helen, and Adelle try to navigate the sometimes humorous, sometimes painful path through childhood and keep their self-worth and dignity intact. Not long after widow Adelle recognizes a remarkable friendship developing with her two young neighbors, one of them moves away. As Rebecca and Helen mature, they turn from their devoted friendship in search of romantic love, finding more questions than answers to their place in this world. In their delicate and self-conscious journey to womanhood, all three characters search for identity and acceptance in a variety of places-a charismatic church, a Depression-era orphanage, a moonlit Savannah park, an orthodox Jewish boarding school-and end up finding lasting strength in the power of their friendship. "Nuanced and lovely, written in the pitch-perfect voice of a narrator aching for a self, Song of the Orange Moons is an enchanting debut novel from an exciting new writer." -Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain