| When They Took Away the Man in the Moonis a powerfu! and provocative novel of self-discovery that explores the crystalline ter-rain of childhood memory, the tangle offamily roots, and the unreasonable expecta-tions we have for our very modern lives. H.A. Reese is a high-powered politicalconsultant with a reputation for rescuingcandidates from their own bungling. Bol;nin Texas, tempered by Washington, andnewly arrived on the Boston scene, she isalso forty-five, twice divorced, and a closetromantic who cannot understand why love,not sex, continues to elude her. As sheenters the critical phase ofa campaign for acandidate who may not be all he appears tobe, H.A. finds her career and her life on holdwhile she grapples with her mother s sud-den stroke back in Texas. By turns funny and gripping, When TheyTook Away the Man in the Moon is the storyof a woman s reunions: with her home sta~ . sj ~a place a person can leave but fi~ver com-pletely escape.., with a truly quirky familywhose pioneer spirit continues to thrive...and, most of all, with herself. |
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