Turtle Moon (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Hoffman
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Verity, Florida, and Great Neck, New York
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Dogs, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Ghosts or apparitions, 1980’s, Detectives, Mysteries, Florida
- Locales: Long Island, NY, Great Neck, NY, Verity, FL
Characters Discussed
Lucy Rosen, a divorced woman in her late thirties, the mother of Keith and neighbor of Bethany Lee. Lucy’s parents died when she was a teenager, and she lived with relatives in Great Neck, New York, where she became a successful, popular student. After divorcing her high school sweetheart, she moved to Verity, where she writes obituaries for the local newspaper. Her primary concern is her son Keith’s increasingly delinquent behavior. She loves him intensely but does not understand him and cannot communicate with him. When Keith disappears with...
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