The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen
Based on a true story, The Moon in the Mango Tree chronicles the life of Barbara Bond and her struggles between what she wants and what she needs.
The Moon in the Mango Tree is set in the Roaring Twenties when young women were lobbying to get the right to vote and forge new ground. Barbara is faced with a decision to follow her own dream of becoming an opera singer and her responsibility to follow her husband to Siam, present day Thailand. When she chooses her husband, Barbara finds herself on a journey to the jungles of Siam to take on the role of missionary doctor’s wife. There she encounters the local people and Buddhist culture and the missionary workers trying to bring Jesus to this remote location.
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?
The Moon in the Mango Tree is an historical romance of love, patience and endurance. This is the third novel for Pamela Binnings Ewen. She resides with her husband near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she
had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could
follow the path that she now dimly discerned before
her . . . the path that led to peace.
W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil