Martha Moody: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Unusual Book --- A Keeper
Review: Martha Moody is definitely a book I'll be reading again. It's a keeper.

It's kind of an unusual book. The main character, Amanda, is given to rather fantastic type daydreams and musings.

She is wed to a somewhat taciturn man named John Linger, but neither of them appear to be in love with the other.

She becomes quite captived by Martha Moody, a woman who runs the general store in town. She takes her cow, Alice's butter into town to sell to Martha.

Amanda at first secretly ... in which Martha becomes a .... that takes on the traits of a ....

Then the stories ... and Martha becomes ....

The book is written in a delightful, captivating style, and the women in it are quite unique and interesting characters.