From Jeannette Walls the bestselling author of The Glass Castle a riveting new novel about
an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was
a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of
the biggest man in a small town the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the
twentieth century into a life of comfort and privilege Sallie remembers little about her
mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old
the Duke has remarried and had a son Eddie. While Sallie is the Duke' s daughter
sharp-witted and resourceful Eddie is his mother’s son timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries
to teach young Eddie to be more like their father her daredevil coaching leads to an accident
and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later she returns determined to reclaim her place in the
family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected and she enters a world of conflict
and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big
House navigates the factions in the family and town and finally comes into her own as a bold
sometimes reckless bootlegger. ' Hang the Moon is Jeannette Walls' s masterwork. Epic
in scope the novel is a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American South . . .
The prose is so elegant and so close to the bone you feel Sallie' s heartbeat. Glorious.'
― Adriana Trigiani author of The Good Left Undone ' Does what all good books should: it
affirms our faith in the human spirit.' ― Dani Shapiro on The Glass Castle ' Like
J.D. Salinger or Hemingway before her Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to
let a story tell itself.' ― Sunday Independent on The Glass Castle
