How the Deer Moon Hungers by Susan Wingate

How the Deer Moon Hungers by Susan Wingate

MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped up drug charge. Now she's in the fight of her life...on the inside! And she's losing.

HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS is a coming of age story about loss, grief, and the power of love.

For those who love reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS is book club fiction.

DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE IN THE 2021 NYC BIG BOOK AWARD

FIRST PLACE AWARD 2021 CIBA SOMERSET LITERARY AWARDS

SILVER AWARD 2021 eLIT BOOK AWARDS

WINNER OF THE 2020 SABA BOOK AWARDS FOR BEST FICTION AUTHOR

SILVER AWARD FOR YA FICTION in the 2020 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards

FINALIST AWARD in the 2020 Shelf Unbound Indie Best Book Awards

BEST FICTION in the 2020 Pacific Book Award

BEST BOOK COVER in the July 2020 Book Cover of the Month Awards

"Vivid characters, a disarming storyline and gratifying ending. What more could a reader want? Everything that can go wrong in Mac’s life does—her parents divorce, her sister dies, and she’s arrested for something she didn’t do. She has to learn how to assimilate it, learn from it, and move forward. But that won’t be easy.” ―Terry Persun, Amazon Bestseller

“In Susan Wingate’s novel How the Deer Moon Hungers, the hidden horrors of juvenile detention facilities are exposed.” ―Foreword Clarion Reviews – 5-Stars

“Wingate weaves a yarn that is absorbing, balanced, and deft.” ―The Book Commentary

“I would strongly recommend this book to people in their late teens and upward.” ―Jo Niederhoff, San Francisco Book Review

“Susan Wingate is gifted at capturing these shifting nuances as events continue to pull characters apart and put them back together like puzzles, albeit in a different way. HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS carries the reader through this process, creating a powerful and memorable saga that is hard to put down and lingers in the mind long after the story is over." ―Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review

“An amazing story!” —Kathryn Lane, Award-winning author of the Nikki Garcia thriller series

“A girl comes into her own following a tragedy in Susan Wingate’s poignant novel.” ―Aimee Jodoin, Foreword Clarion Reviews

“Mac and Tessa are part of my life now.” ―Billie Hobbs, Independent Editor “I was terrorized. Then, I cried.” ―Elizabeth Ajamie Boyer, author of Memories of War

Susan Wingate is an Amazon bestselling and award winning author of over fifteen novels. Susan writes across fiction genres often setting her stories in the Pacific Northwest where she and her husband, Bob live. Susan’s writing has been published in journals such as the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Superstition Review, and Suspense Magazine, and several others. Susan is represented by Chip MacGregor. Susan's Memberships Include: PEN America, the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.

She writes about big trouble in small towns and lives with her husband on an island off the coast of Washington State where, against State laws, she feeds the wildlife because she wants them to follow her. Her ukulele playing is (as her Sitto used to say) coming along.