The novel, Part 3 focuses on the resolution of Bo's murder John's drug scene, and ends with herĭiscovery that her baby was adopted by a family in Montreal. Part 2 concentrates on Maureen's involvement John's, she is sent away from school and forced to give up herĬhild for adoption. Pubs with her friend Carleen and ends up pregnant.

Once she reaches Montreal, Maureen visits disreputable Lives at her family home on Princess Street with her parents andĭisabled sister. The second daughter ofĪ strict, abusive mother and of a distant and often drunk father, she Maureen's successful attempt to join her religious school'sĬhoir so that she can attend Expo 67 in Montreal. Prologue then is followed by three parts.

In 1970, where we learn of how Maureen has poisoned the food in theįridge following one of her violent boyfriend Bo's beatings. The main sections of the novel are preceded by a brief prologue set People who surround her, and the choices she makes. Intensified by the dysfunctional environment in which she lives, the Maureen's struggle to gain emotional strength is in fact Pregnancy, alcoholism, and drugs are all themes explored in the novel. Love, physical and emotional abuse, teenage Mystery, it concentrates on Maureen Brennan, a teenager born in St. Published after decades of award-winning work as an actress, comedian,ĭirector, producer, and social activist. ISBNĬrying for the Moon (2017) is Mary Walsh's debut novel, 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Faculty of Arts Publications 05 May.

MLA style: 'Crying for the Moon.' The Free Library.

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