Book Review: A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

A Thousand Moons
by Sebastian Barry (Barry)

Winona, a minor figure from Sebastian Barry’s previous novel Days Without End, is a member of the Lakota tribe and the main character in A Thousand Moons. This new novel can be read alone instead of as a sequel. It is 1879 in Paris, Tennessee and Winona is being raised through a communal effort on a small farm by Thomas McNulty, John Cole, farm owner Lige Mason, and Rosalee and Tennyson Bouguereau. The Bouguereau siblings are two former slaves who, like Winona, are still in imminent, barely concealed danger from “nightriders”. The book leaves you cheering for lovers young and old who follow their hearts instead of what society dictates.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.]

[ U.S. publisher’s official A Thousand Moons web page ] | [ Wikipedia page for Sebastian Barry ]

Recommended by Jodi R.
Anderson and Bethany Branch Libraries

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