The Moonlight School
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Revell
Christian | Historical Fiction | Women's Fiction
Pub Date 02 Feb 2021
I am reviewing a copy of The Moonlit School through Revell and Netgalley:
Lucy Wilson is haunted by her sisters disappearance when she arrives in Rowan County Kentucky, it’s was the spring of 1911 when Lucy goes to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. After Cora sends Lucy to the hills to act as a scribe for the mountain people and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write.
Cora, who was born in those hills knows the plague of illiteracy. So does Brother Wyatt, a singing schoolmaster who travels through the hills. She involves Lucy and Wyatt, Cora hatches a plan to open the schoolhouses to adults on moonlit nights. She believes the best way to combat poverty is eliminate illiteracy. But will help come?
As Lucy emerges from a life she felt had been lived in the shadows, she finds purpose or perhaps its purpose that finds her. With purpose comes answers to her questions, and something else she hadn't expected: love.
The Moonlight School brings to life the story that shocked the nation into taking adult literacy seriously.
I give The Moonlight School five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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