Quee is a familiar type of character that frequently appears in literature. How do the circumstances of people's lives affect our perceptions of what is right or wrong? What kinds of decisions can we make for other people? And how involved in others' lives can or should we be before we can make those decisions?ģ. Discuss some of the ways in which her behavior is ethically questionable, and consider whether or not her actions nonetheless seem right. Quee can be seen as a godlike creature who rewrites the rules of what is ethical in life. Which characters do you think are lonely, and which are misplaced? Why are the lonely people lonely? And where do you think the misfits belong?Ģ.

This book has been called a story told by lonely and misplaced people. McCorkle lives in the Boston area with her husband and two young children and writes whenever she has the chance.ġ. She has taught creative writing at Tufts University and UNC-Chapel Hill, and she currently teaches at Bennington College and Harvard University. McCorkle graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her M.A.

McCorkle has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, and The Atlanta Journal. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The Ladies Home Journal, Agni, Cosmopolitan, The Southern Review, Allure, and Gettysburg Review. Her collection of short stories, Crash Diet, won the 1993 New England Booksellers Award. McCorkle's books have been translated into several languages and have earned acclaim and a loyal following. While growing up she frequented Holden Beach on the North Carolina coast, a location that inspired the locale in her latest novel, Carolina Moon.Ĭarolina Moon is McCorkle's fifth novel and sixth book since the simultaneous publication of her first two novels, July 7th and The Cheer Leader, when she was just twenty-six. Jill McCorkle was born and raised in the small town of Lumberton, North Carolina.

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