The Moon in the Mango Tree
by Pamela Binnings Ewen
List Price: $15.99
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780805447330
Publisher: B&H Books
Until recently retiring to write full time, Pamela Binnings Ewen was a partner in the Houston office of the international law firm of BakerBotts, L.L.P., specializing in corporate finance. She now lives just outside New Orleans in Mandeville, Louisiana with her husband, James Lott. She has served on the Board of Directors of Inprint, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting the literary arts in Houston, and is on the Board of Directors of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans.
Pamela's first novel, Walk Back The Cat (Broadman & Holman. May, 2006) is the story of an embittered and powerful clergyman who learns an ancient secret, confronting him with truth and a choice that may destroy him. She is also the best-selling author of the acclaimed non-fiction book Faith On Trial, published by Broadman & Holman in 1999, currently in its third printing. Although it was written for non-lawyers, Faith On Trial was also chosen as a text for a course on law and religion at Yale Law School in the Spring of 2000, along with The Case For Christ by Lee Stroble. Continuing the apologetics begun in Faith On Trial, Pamela also appears with Gary Habermas, Josh McDowell, Darrell Bock, Lee Stroble, and others in the film Jesus: Fact or Fiction, a Campus Crusade for Christ production. Her new novel, The Moon in the Mango Tree (B&H Publishing Group, May 2008) will be available next spring. Set in the 1920's and based on a true story, it is about a woman faced with making a choice between career and love, and her search for faith over the glittering decade.
Pamela is the latest writer to emerge from a Louisiana family recognized for its statistically improbable number of successful authors. A cousin, James Lee Burke, who won the Edgar Award, wrote about the common ancestral grandfathers in his Civil War novel White Dove At Morning. Among other writers in the family are Andre Dubus (Best Picture Oscar nomination for The Bedroom; his son, Andre Dubus III, author of The House of Sand and Fog, Best Picture Oscar nomination and an Oprah pick; Elizabeth Nell Dubus (the Cajun trilogy); and Alafair Burke, just starting out with the well received Samantha Kincaid mystery series. Pamela is currently working on a new book titled Dancing on Glass, which was recently short-listed as a finalist for the 2007 Faulkner/Wisdom creative writing novel award.
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Q: What made you want to write this book? What was the idea that sparked your imagination?
PBE: It is a true story based on my grandmother’s life during the 1920s. I remember her telling stories of her time in Siam and Bangkok and Rome and I remember seeing pictures of her and my grandfather at the mission and I used these stories as the basis for the book.
Q: What do you want readers to take away with them after reading the book?
PBE: While taking place 90 years ago, The Moon in the Mango Tree illustrates the struggles that women face even today. Should they give up their career to stay home and care for children? If the husband is transferred, does the women automatically give up her dream job to follow? Is the women’s place to support her husband in his endeavors?
Excerpted from The Moon in the Mango Tree © Copyright 2008 by Pamela Binnings Ewen. Reprinted with permission by B&H Books. All rights reserved.
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