Papers of Janice Daugharty, MS-22

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ID	Title	Characters	Setting	Brief Review (Events)	Number of pages or number of words	Additional information	Box #	Folder #	Date published
164	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 mud 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.	275	Dark of the Moon-Typed manuscript pgs 1-44; 202-22	20	7	1994