The Owl & Moon Cafe: A Novel

ISBN: 0743266412

Title: The Owl & Moon Cafe: A Novel

Author: Jo-Ann Mapson

KDL Description:

A tale featuring women from four generations of the Moon family finds matriarch Gammy Bess limiting her kind nature to the days on which she wins bingo games, Allegra driving her daughter Mariah crazy with her numerous protest rallies and boyfriends, and twelve-year-old Lindsay struggling with her high IQ and romantic fantasies about Carl Sagan.

Amazon Description:

After losing her teaching position at the local university, Mariah Moon will do anything to keep her gifted twelve-year-old daughter, Lindsay, in a prestigious private school — which means moving in with her mother and grandmother in an apartment above The Owl & Moon Café.

When her mother, Allegra, is diagnosed with leukemia, Mariah rises to the challenge of running the café: mastering her mother’s famous fudge and chatting up customers — including a man who might just reawaken her heart. Meanwhile, Lindsay’s controversial entry in a major national science contest creates a minor maelstrom in the cosseted Monterey Bay community. And Allegra, with one last great love affair in her, will revisit a man she loved so many years ago, and disclose the biggest secret of the Moon family: the identity of Mariah’s father.

Will the Moon women recognize this as the moment to do away with their family history of dubiously fathered children, and learn to forgive others and themselves in order to move forward? In her poignant new novel, bestselling author Jo-Ann Mapson explores the complexities of love and family with the keen eye and stylistic grace that have made her books perennial favorites.