num_pages: 336
description: What's in a name? A lot, according to Caribbean-born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now in her fifties, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: her beloved father has just died, and she is starting menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her special gift for finding lost things. Suddenly she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air. Only this time, the lost item that has washed up on the shore is not her old toy truck or her hairbrush, but a four-year-old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems: the boy's family is most unusual. Then Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.
language: English
title: The New Moon's Arms
titlecomplete: The New Moon's Arms
characters: Calamity
genres: Audiobook, Canada, Womens, Science Fiction, Queer, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 1102
places: Caribbean Islands
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long Form Work in English
publisher: Grand Central Publishing