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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2006-01-02
Publication Date:
2006-01-01
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0156031671
ISBN13:
9780156031677
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
14
Weight:
366 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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