Please don't come back from the moon
By: Dean Bakopoulos
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780151011353
Subjects: Teenage boys; Fatherless families; Working class families; Fiction; Single-parent families; Runaway husbands
Description: When his father disappears along with several other men from their blue-collar Detroit neighborhood, sixteen-year-old Michael Smolij witnesses the effects of large-scale abandonment on the community's wives and mothers.
Table of contents: title: Please don't come back from the moon; title: Some memories of my father; title: Summer, 1992; title: The calming effect of jelly doughnuts; title: A newcomer's guide to Ann Arbor; title: The boy with the backward chakra; title: Capable of love; title: Knights of labor; title: The warning signs and symptoms of depression; title: Please don't come back from the moon (reprise).