The Exact Same Moon : Fifty Acres and a Family

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Chapter 1: Chapter One
Okay, you go in first, I say to Alex, the husband. He looks at me. I'm too shy, I say. He lowers his head, glares at me through eyes that say, As if. Ahem. I remind him that I wet my pants nearly every day in kindergarten, so terrified was I of joining

Reader's Guide
1. The Exact Same Moon opens with Jeanne Marie and Alex fearful of being outsiders in a community that still seems foreign to them in some ways. Have they achieved a sense of belonging by the end of the book?

JEANNE MARIE LASKAS is a columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appear weekly, and a contributing editor at Esquire. She is also an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing. When she's not working on her next book, she, Alex, and their two daughters tend the goats, sheep, horses, mules, and other animals at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

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