What Fiction are you reading this week, December 25, 2022?

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12. Happy Christmas to everyone in the Fiction group, and thanks to you, hermetic,

for being such a wonderful host. I am reading Billie Letts' book, Shoot the Moon. I have enjoyed her previous books, esp. Where the Heart Is and I loved the movie version.

From amazon:

In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared that he, too, had been killed, although his body was never found.

Nearly thirty years later, Nicky Jack mysteriously returns to DeClare, shocking the town and stirring up long-buried memories. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. Piece by piece, what emerges is a story of dashed hopes, desperate love, and a secret that still cries out for justice...and redemption.