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Forty-four-year-old Willow Trudeau has lost her mojo, her career as an artist in New York City is floundering, and she decides to pick up and move to the small town of Weeping Willow, Ohio (for which she is named) where her father, Leon Ziemny, still lives. When she arrives, she's surprised to find that he has a houseguest, a stranger from her late grandmother's past, who is on a mission to find his murdered pastor brother's long-missing Bible, a treasured family heirloom passed down from slave times. Not only that, but he has a highly unorthodox request-a request that stirs up a hornet's nest of dark secrets about the Trudeaus. Amid the cultural uncertainties of 2017 America, as the town gets wind of the newcomer and his reason for being there, it becomes a cauldron of volatile emotions and fears-from those of a pining waitress at the local diner, to the passionate worshippers of a controversial megachurch. And then the unthinkable happens and tragedy strikes, forcing Willow and her family to exhume the ghosts of their murky pasts in more ways than one. The Fireweed Moon, a contemporary literary saga of three generations of the Trudeau-Ziemny families, comes to a searing and poignant conclusion, addressing several universal themes along the way. Among them, what moves good people to do bad things? How does trauma echo through time and affect successive generations? What is the nature of forgiveness? What does it really mean to love too much?

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"""Well-crafted and rich in character, this emotional storyline weaves history, mystery, and tragedy to reveal a final portrait of strong family bonds and universal love."" BlueInk Review, starred review (June, 2023)"

"""Dzikowski's The Fireweed Moon is the captivating third and final addition to the Moon trilogy, bringing the family saga full circle as characters search for truth and redemption ... well-crafted and rich in character, this emotional storyline weaves history, mystery, and tragedy to reveal a final portrait of strong family bonds and universal love."" BlueInk Review, starred review ""Letters found in secret compartments, medical records stashed in basements, and a buried Bible effectively bring the past's mysteries to life and complicate the present ... Dzikowski keeps the narrative moving with the unhurried consistency of a sidewalk stroll to the corner store -- one in which, as Lily writes in a letter, 'even the cracks on the sidewalk seem to sing.' Love and familial empathy shine through in this quiet, powerful novel."" Kirkus Reviews"

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