Moon Over Manifest
Book Review
It is 1936, in the town of Manifest, Kansas. Abeline Tucker had always known life on the road with her father, Gideon. Gideon was a man "crushed under the weight of love", and decided that life on the road was no way for a young girl to grow up. So he sent her to the only place he knew, Manifest. Manifest, is a town with a rich past, and deep roots.
Abeline yearns to find her father's footprint in this town, and spends all her time there digging through the past trying to find some scrap of the boy her father used to be. As Abeline quickly learns, there is immense power in a story. A story can bring even the tow most different of people together. She meets Miss Sadie the Diviner, who tells her tales of two young menwho left large footprints of their own- Jinx and Ned.
As Abeline delves into the rich past of Manifest, she begins to qustion her own place and past in this world. Having grown up in the road, where is her home? As she comes to realize, "home is not a place on a map- true places never are."
In a town full of "remember when's" and memories more valuabke than any elixir, Abeline finds herself growing attached for the first time in her life. She learns lessons of love, life, the past, and the present.
Moon Over Manifest is a book that will leave you asking yourself, not where, but who is home? what is home?
The character debvelopment in this book is phenomenal, I couldn't help but get attached! This is an absolutely wonterful read, and by the end of it, I was on the verge of tears, and deeply gratified. five stars!
-Carley Davis