Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, worked. One man props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. "I'm going to the moon," it reads. "I took the cash." The wives drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives and shaking off the belief in an American dream that, like their husbands, has proven to be a thing of the past. Unable to leave the neighborhood their fathers abandoned, Michael and his friends stumble through their twenties until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away.

Author: Dean Bakopoulos
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780156031677
ISBN10: 0156031671
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Family Life | General