<b><b>“A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world.” <b>—Hermione Lee, <i>The New York Review of Books</i></b><br /><br /></b>From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of <i>Days Without End </i>comes a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War</b><br /><br />Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive parents John Cole and Thomas McNulty, whose story Barry told in his acclaimed previous novel<i> Days Without End</i>, she forges a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past.<br /><br />Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the Civil War, and the fragile harmony of her family is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Exquisitely written, <i>A Thousand Moons </i>is a stirring, poignant story of love and redemption, of one woman&apos;s journey and her determination to write her own future.