{"product_id":"man-in-the-moon","title":"Man in the Moon","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Science claims it will one day be able to eliminate fathers from the equation by mating bone marrow with ovum. When that day comes, I imagine this book, along with a handful of other works (King Lear, Fun Home) will become even more necessary. Herein find the blueprints for the mystery, the maps for the uncharted, the keys to the archetype.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nick Flynn, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reenactments\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"At this moment, I find myself at loose ends, lost in the various vacuums left by my father's dying and my sons' departures out into the voids. Yet this stunning constellation of essays centered me, became for me fine instruments of reckoning of where to stand in the ceaseless entropic dynamic of kin, of paternal keening. These waxing meditations demonstrate the inflationary universe, the heft and velocity of that big ol' nothing. They elegantly fill, with sober hope and the balm of joy, the terrifying, infinite spaces between those waning stars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Martone, author of \u003ci\u003eMichael Martone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFour for a Quarter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"What an unreachable mystery the father is, preoccupied, unknowable, pervasive. In these fascinating essays, a shared portrait emerges as writers articulate the perpetual puzzle of the father and, with grace and candor, explore what it means to not know him, to never know him. As one voice, these essays investigate the man—his inventories, his myths, his mere traces—who makes up our horizons, who forever shimmers there beyond our collective grasp.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susanna Sonnenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Last Death\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShe Matters: A Life in Friendships\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected from the country's leading literary journals and publications—\u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nervous Breakdown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Normal School\u003c\/i\u003e, and others—\u003ci\u003eMan in the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e brings together essays in which sons, daughters, and fathers explore the elusive nature of this intimate relationship and find unique ways to frame and understand it: through astronomy, arachnology, storytelling, map-reading, television, puzzles, DNA, and so on. In the collection's title essay, Bill Capossere considers the inextricable link between his love of astronomy and memories of his father: \"The man in the moon is no stranger to me,” he writes. \"I have seen his face before, and it is my father's, and his father's, and my own.” Other essays include Dinty Moore's \"Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers,” in which Moore lays out an alphabetic investigation of fathers from popular culture—Ward Cleaver, Jim Anderson, Ozzie Nelson—while ruminating on his own absent father and hesitation to become a father himself. In \"Plot Variations,” Robin Black attempts to understand, through the lens of teaching fiction to creative writing students, her inability to attend her father's funeral. Deborah Thompson tries to reconcile her pride in her father's pioneering research in plastics and her concerns about their toxic environmental consequences in \"When the Future Was Plastic.” At turns painfully familiar, comic, and heartbreaking, the essays in this collection also deliver moments of seari\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stephanie G'Schwind","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54299160314148,"sku":"9781885635358","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_96d8da43-edf9-4952-b672-d9b2cbf30933.jpg?v=1780571217","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/man-in-the-moon","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}