The Last of the Moon Girls

Lizzy is the 36-year-old protagonist of the novel. She is a dynamic character whose arc involves letting go of her desire for normalcy and embracing her generational role as a magical healer. Her full name is Elzibeth, which she doesn’t like at the beginning of the novel: “[S]he couldn’t even have a normal name” (4). Lizzy longs to be normal. After leaving Moon Girl Farm, she went to Dickerson University and became the creative director of a perfume company, Chenier Fragrances, Ltd., in New York City. Since she was 14, Lizzy has had the psychic gift of identifying emotions through scent, which led to her successful career making perfumes. Because the Moon family tradition is that women don’t marry, Lizzy has avoided serious relationships. She had a fling with her boss, Luc, but doesn’t love him. She is “not chasing happily-ever-after” and thinks that “solitary mean[s] safe” (262, 139). After Althea’s death, Lizzy wants to sell the farm as quickly as possible.

However, Lizzy remains at the farm longer than she expected. In addition to the struggle with the realtor to list the farm, Lizzy wants to “fight to clear Althea’s name” of the murders of Heather and Darcy (45).