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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon | Dean Bakopoulos, Erika Seidman
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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. This is a haunting, unforgettable debut novel for anyone who has ever been left longing.
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Writeme
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon | Dean Bakopoulos, Erika Seidman
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This book is so interesting, strange, surprising, and terrific. I don‘t think I‘ve read anything quite so unformulaic before. I don‘t know where it‘s going, but I‘m going with!

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Jas16
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon | Dean Bakopoulos, Erika Seidman
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This is a book that was on my shelves and I know I have read it but I remember nothing about it. It is apparently about a town where all the grown men leave, abounding their families and lives. #walkingonthemoon #rockinmay

Cinfhen This sounds terribly depressing 😫😑😳definitely not a beach read!!! 7y
Jas16 @Cinfhen I kind of want to reread it to see why I liked it enough to keep it. I may add it to my towering Memorial Day weekend stack b 7y
Cinfhen Let me know!!! Enjoy the holiday weekend ☀️hope you get lots of reading in!!! 7y
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Jana
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon | Dean Bakopoulos, Erika Seidman
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#bookphotochallenge So this might be cheating but my #booksquad is all the bloggers who link up with me and my co-host every month for our books linkup. What a fucking army of readers we have. And the book selection is one that I fell in love with, obsessively raved about, and as a result, roughly 10 others have read & also fallen in love with. That's my kind of squad. (If I had to pick a true book squad, it's The Babysitters Club. No question).

Jellybeanbon I love this idea. 8y
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