The Last Moon Before Home: 2 (Moon Trilogy)

When Willow Trudeau is given her dead mothers diary on her tenth birthday she learns a hard truth: her mother chose Willows life over her own. Years later at loose ends over her identity and abandoning college Willow journeys to a deteriorating ethnic neighborhood in Indiana to search for a father Leon Ziemny about whom she knows only his name.Meanwhile Leons father Walt a plain-spoken retired steelworker who runs a dying tavern has just been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease. When Willow turns up at the tavern one night she and Walt forge an immediate connection in their shared flux. Without knowing shes Leons child he offers her a bartending job.Walts descent into Alzheimers turns the lives of his family-his wife Mary; sons Leon and Ricky; and Leons wife Stella-upside down. It causes further discord in Leons already-troubled marriage and threatens Rickys sobriety forcing them to reevaluate their own past choices. Only Willow who continues to conceal her true identity seems able to provide the balm for her grandfathers ailing soul and changing needs including his ongoing plea to return to a home that no longer exists. But at what cost? Are we shackled by our past or can it be redeeming?