num_pages: 273
description: 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.
language: English
title: Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
titlecomplete: Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
characters: Michael Smolij
genres: American, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1295
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt