An unusually usual day-to-day story in the Deep South, set in the gothic,swampy southern town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teenangst, and shadowy rednecks. As Cleo Lovedrop heads off for college at the localart school, she's haunted by her melancholic past: a lost love, a lost child.Friends and enemies live their lives around her, as trouble and dissent brewsamongst them: an unseen social assailant spreads slander about Cleo, she isforced to deal with her two brusque roommates, and discovers unsolved mysteriesabout the girl who lived in her room previously. Elsewhere, Trilby deals withunsettled emotional and sexual issues, and keeping her secret habits hidden fromeveryone. And Audrey comes to the realization that, despite all her efforts, shealways causes her friends distress, while Fern, a peculiar, deformed girl wholives in an isolated mansion in the bayous, begins to notice Cleo and herfriends. As the moon grows full and lunar rays shine down, lunacy andmoon-calves run free. Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats,murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful thingspeople do to each other.
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