The Hunger Moon

  Now they were turning to her. The judge was asking her a question. Charlie was humming in the background. Bryan was waiting. Renata took a breath.

  Copyright © 1997 by Suzanne Matson

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  The text of this book is composed in Perpetua with the display set in Eaglefeather.

  Desktop composition by Chelsea Dippel

  Book design by Charlotte Staub

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Matson, Suzanne, date.

  The hunger moon / Suzanne Matson.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-393-34846-0 (e-book)

  I. Title.

  PS3563.A8378H86 1997

  813’.54—dc21 96–45286 CIP

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