The
Moon in the Mango Tree
by
Pamela Binnings Ewen
Book
Blast – March 28th to April 1st
THE
MOON IN THE MANGO TREE is an emotional and riveting tale based on the
true life of Pamela Binnings Ewen’s own grandmother. Under the
glittering lights of the palace in Siam, can a woman choose between
the freedom she craves and the husband she loves with her whole
heart? Can she have it all--or does she have to choose? And when you
choose between two things you love, must one be forever lost? If you
were enchanted by The Moonlit Garden by Corina Bowmann, you’ll be
caught in the spell of The Moon in the Mango Tree.
Title:
The Moon in the Mango Tree
Author:
Pamela Binnings Ewen
Genre:
Women’s Fiction
Release
Date: March 21st,
2016
Publisher:
Indie Published
Print
Length: 391 pages
Format:
Paperback and Digital
Print
ISBN: 9780805447330
Synopsis:
The
dazzling decade, the 1920's, and a beautiful young singer is torn
between her fierce desire for independence--to create something of
her own to give meaning and purpose to her life--and a deep abiding
love for her husband, a medical missionary who will become royal
physician to the court of Siam. Based on a true story, one young
woman will travel from Philadelphia of the Roaring Twenties to the
jungles of the Orient, to pre-war Paris and Rome, in the struggle to
find her place in the world.
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Excerpt
I
sat naked before a tarnished old mirror in the middle of the jungle
and contemplated the situation, letting my anger cool. Sunshine
streamed through a window on the right, lighting my hair to a copper
haze, burnishing my skin. Still damp from the bath, I patted beads of
water on my neck and shoulders with a towel, trying to ignore the
question that had begun to gnaw at my thoughts: Have I made a
terrible mistake? I turned my eyes to the window. Across a clearing
and past the little mission church, a ragged line of tall twisted
trees encroached. Dark shapes seemed to dance in slender bamboo that
advanced before the forest, undermining the discipline of the
mission, but I knew it was just the undergrowth that made those
shapes--fern, creeping vines, and waxy dark-green banana leaves.
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from March 28th
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About
Pamela Binnings Ewen:
After practicing law for many years in
Houston, Texas, Pamela Binnings Ewen exchanged her partnership in the
law firm of BakerBotts, L.L.P for writing. She lives near New
Orleans, Louisiana. In September, 2013, Ewen’s novel, An Accidental
Life, will be released by B&H Publishing Group. In addition, in
September 2013, an updated, second edition of Ewen’s best-selling
non-fiction book, Faith on Trial, will be released, including a new
‘User’s Guide’.
In addition to the new releases, Pamela
is the author of four novels from B&H Publishing Group, including
Secret of the Shroud, The Moon in the Mango Tree (a 2009 Christy
Award Finalist), Dancing on Glass (a 2012 Christy Award Finalist, and
winner of a Single Titles Reviewers’ Choice Award), and Chasing the
Wind ( a Romantic Times ‘Top Pick’). The Moon in the Mango Tree
was recently honored as winner of the 2012 Eudora Welty Memorial
Award given by the National League of American Pen Women.
Pamela’s fiction writing grows out of
her faith journey, which resulted in Faith on Trial in 1999. Faith on
Trial , along with Lee Strobel’s A Case for Christ, was chosen as a
text for a course on law and religion at Yale Law School in 2000.
Pamela is also featured in the film Jesus: Fact or Fiction, produced
by Campus Crusade for Christ. An updated second edition of Faith on
Trial (September, 2013) includes a new ‘User’s Guide’.
While practicing law Pamela served on the
board of directors of Inprint, Inc., a non-profit organization
supporting the literary arts in Houston, Texas. Pamela has also
served on the board of directors of the New Orleans Pirate’s Alley
Faulkner Society and she is currently a member of the Board of
Directors of The Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. In 2007
she co-founded the Northshore Literary Society. Pamela received the
St. Tammany Parish President’s Arts Award as Literary Artist of the
Year in 2009.
Pamela is the latest writer to emerge
from a Louisiana family recognized for its statistically improbable
number of successful authors. A cousin, James Lee Burke, who won the
Edgar Award, wrote about the common ancestral grandfathers in his
Civil War novel White Dove At Morning.
Among other writers in the family are
Andre Dubus (Best Picture Oscar nomination for The Bedroom; his son,
Andre Dubus III, author of The House of Sand and Fog, a Best Picture
Oscar nomination and an Oprah pick; Elizabeth Nell Dubus (the Cajun
trilogy); and Alafair Burke, just starting out with the well-received
Samantha Kincaid mystery series.
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