Beneath a Meth Moon

"This is an elegy ... and prayer for the ones who didn't make it." Of her work, Woodson says "I started researching and trying to find the happy ending and realizing I needed to write my own happy ending be ause so many [endings for meth addicts] were not happy. Laurel's is a hopeful story... she has a deep internal strength... I like to believe this deep strength exists in all of us." This is a heartaching story of a girl who lost her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina's flood waters. Then, she loses herself to meth, to the light of the moon and its false happiness. As usual, Woodson's captures her characters clearly and writes something that will enthrall you, disgust you, bring you to tears, and lift you to hope.