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Mending the Moon

By: Susan Palwick
Narrated by: Emily C. Michaels, Alfred Gingold
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Melinda Soto, aged 64, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler - just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from which she can't retire; Rosemary, who's losing her husband to Alzheimer's and who's trying to lose herself in volunteer work; Henrietta, the priest at Rosemary's and Melinda's church.

Jeremy already had a fraught relationship with his charismatic mother and the people in her orbit. Now her death is tearing him apart, and he can barely stand the rituals of remembrance that ensue among his mother’s friends. Then the police reveal who killed Melinda: a Seattle teenager who flew home to his parents and drowned himself just days later.

It's too much. Jeremy's not the only one who can't deal. Friendships fray. But the unexpected happens: an invitation to them all, from the murderer's mother, to come to Seattle for his memorial. It's ridiculous. And yet, somehow, each of them begins to see in it a chance to heal. Aided, in peculiar ways, by Jeremy's years-long obsession with the comic-book hero Comrade Cosmos, and the immense cult of online commentary it's spawned.

Shot through with feeling and inventiveness, this is a novel of the odd paths that lead to home.

©2013 Susan Palwick (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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good for insomniacs

'cause within 15 minutes, i was ready to snooze off from boredom. which is ok, you know, you gotta give a book a chance. so i fought off sleep and continued to listen, until i got to the part about the creation of the comic-book hero--and then i just got annoyed.

because there is a culture to comics and to geekery. for some reason the reader chose to read this section as though he was nothing but a pencil-necked geek--whine and all.

total diss on geek culture, narrator, and unwarranted.

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Delicate story. Sweet and a little sad.

What did you love best about Mending the Moon?

Out of tragedy springs the beginnings of hope. Two families are impacted by a violent event that forever alters them all; but through learning to trust and by staying open, they find that their connections, sometimes very unexpected bring them together and give them renewed hope. The story is told at a slow gentle pace, focusing on the internal landscapes of the main characters. But is peppered with scenes from a comic book that holds a prominent place in the story.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the "real" scenes. The female narrator is excellent. The Captain Cosmos scenes are not as good, maybe because the male narrator has an odd way of running sentences together without much break so I found myself not able to follow sometimes.

Which scene was your favorite?

The descriptions of the Nevada desert made me want to go there!

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