num_pages: 234
description: A.A. Attanasio, award winning author of Radix, Wyvern, and Hunting the Ghost Dancer, has created an astonishing contemporary adventure and spellbinding love story that probes the mysteries of the feminine, sweeping us from depths of darkness to dazzling realms of vision and light.A young bookkeeper in upstate New York, Sigrid Lindo is painfully aware that her life has narrowed down to working a dull job and caring for her widowed mother, when she steps out on Tappan Down to hear the moon's velvet voice asking her to be his wife. It is a seduction Siggy will resist with all the stoic reason and practicality she has learned from her beloved father. But the moon's gift of glamour is powerful and beyond her control.Siggy subjects herself to psychiatric tests to discover the cause of the sudden erotic awakening that has begun to color her everyday life. In a Manhattan clinic, a tiny brain anomaly is detected. But the moon will not be denied. Determined to convince her of his reality, the man-in-the-moon takes up residence in the body of Daniel Schel, a handsome young poet with a dark and bloody past who becomes the moon-in-the-man. Caught between the demon-ridden clinic and the moon's ecstatic rapture, Siggy is befriended by two elderly volunteers who claim to be devotees of the moon. They offer Siggy the skills she needs to control her newfound powers. As forces of darkness gather strength, Siggy makes her choice, fleeing from the hospital with Daniel.From an eccentric enclave in Brooklyn to an idyllic bower atop a Riverside Drive apartment building, Siggy and Daniel savor the rarest love. But as Siggy's magical powers grow, Daniel's powers begin to wane and Siggy is swept into a timeless ritual and an ancient battle. For she cannot escape the fateful confrontation that will fulfill the strange secret of her destiny and reveal the stunning truth of what it means to be the moon's wife.
language: English
title: The Moon's Wife: A Hystery
titlecomplete: The Moon's Wife: A Hystery
genres: Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Harpercollins