| ID | Title | Characters | Setting | Brief Review (Events) | Additional information | Box # | Folder # | Date published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | Newspaper and Journal Articles:Dark of the Moon | Merdie
Lee Mac Bo Dink Hamp Jean J.B. |
Cornerville, GA in Swanoochee County | Merdi
Lee gets sucked into her bootlegger husband's scheme to hold captive a
whiskey revenuer, she figures it's one more muc bog Okefenokee Swamp set
to sink her dream of making the mob of grown sons and stepsons to cook
and clean up after, while placating her mother, the local midwife, who
has "more power than the Georgia Governor." But when the
whiskey revenuer becomes "Mac," Merdie discovers that love is
the quickest mire in her tree-walled world. ("I lost in him, that's
all I know. Maybe I was a little lost in him because it had been so long
since anybody had loved me, and never like that, but I felt in love,
in-love like I always sang about but never felt.") One thing doesn't let up before another comes down, Merdie thinks, as her private passions are pitted daily against duty. Though her husband doesn't even know she signs, she needs her music career to uproot her boys before they become too stuck in the rot of flatwoods resignation. And if Mac, miserably roped but rapturous in Merdies' charge, goes free, he might turn in her three boys; if he stays, one of the might carry out the old man's threat to kill him. When her crazy husbands gets crazier Merdie's choices are dire: she can't let her craving to keep Mac threaten his safety. |
Newspaper
and Journal Articles: Dark of the Moon Dark of the Moon-Publisher Weekly-1/10/94 (2 copies); Write Where You Know- Writers Digest-5/97; Something new under the Moon-the Dallas Morning News-4/3/94; Okefenokee Tales-New York Times-9/25/94; Bumper Crop-Atlanta Constitution-2/2/95 |
1 | 2 | 1994 |