Melanie Gideon - Valley of the Moon (Corte Madera)

In Valley of the Moon, a woman who feels lost in her own world stumbles across a California community that has, impossibly, been marooned in the early twentieth century.

Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way in the world when she stumbles across an idyllic community in the Sonoma valley where she feels instantly at home. It seems like a place from another time—until she realizes it actually is. One night in 1906, an earthquake left Greengage stuck in the past. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked against her, but every day she is more strongly drawn in by the sweet simplicity of life in Greengage, and by the irresistible connection she feels with a man born decades before her time. Soon she finds herself torn between her ties to the modern world—her adored son—and the first place she has ever felt truly at home.

Melanie Gideon is the bestselling author of Wife 22 and The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After, which was named an NPR and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year. She is also the author of three young adult novels. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, More, Shape, The Times, The Daily Mail, and Marie Claire. She was born and raised in Rhode Island. She now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son.

Location: 

51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925