Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

Name: Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
ISBN: 9780156031677

to Dean Bakopoulos

3/5

(11 akɔdadawo)

Wotae zi gbãtɔ: 2006
Gbeƒãɖelawo: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Nyatiwo: Michigan·Fiction·Fiction·General

Whether you agree that the "Greatest Generation" was as great as it's cracked up to be, whether you think the American Dream still lives, and whether you believe your children will be better off later than you are now, this deeply affecting book will rattle you. Tender, brutal, angry and sad this book prefigures the fate of men, boys, and Detroits everywhere in America.

I picked up Please Don't Come Back from the Moon after seeing it on an earlier NY Times Notable Books list and as I was reading it, I kept asking myself how this book wasn't more highly acclaimed or get more kudos when it came out. I guess it did having made it to that list however I don't think I have met a person yet who has read it.

Dean Bakopoulos tells us that the title of his debut novel, PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON, comes from a jazz composition by Charles Mingus, but I was immediately reminded of another song, from the 1960s. Here is the opening verse from it -"Streets full of people, all aloneRoads full of houses, never homeA church full of singing, out of tuneEveryone's gone to the moon.