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The Almost Moon The Almost Moon
by Alice Sebold
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status: Read in November, 2007

In 2003, my brother bought me Alice Sebold's first novel, The Lovely Bones, for Christmas. I was into it from the first page, and I couldn't help crying my eyes out. Later, I read her memoir, Lucky. I didn't think it was quite as well done, but it was about a very powerful topic, and it gave me some respect for where Sebold had come from and how much she had overcome. So, I eagerly anticipated getting this one from the long library waiting list. The Almost Moon tackles the difficult subject of family mental illness. Given my work recently, this is an area I am very interested in - how genetics affects behavior and how families attempt to normalize "crazy" behavior. Unfortunately, like mental illness, this book is all over the place. Sebold switches from present time to the main character's childhood to her life with her husband and children - and does so in a way that is haphazard and often confusing. The main character (unlike John Nash in A Beautiful Mind) is completely o...more
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message 1: by Razzle
11/26/2007 09:37AM

224499 This is depressing the hell out of me.

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message 2: by Anne
11/26/2007 10:39AM

223993 Uh oh! I'm planning to start it tonight or tomorrow. I just started What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - depressing topics, but told in an uplifting way so far...

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message 3: by Brooke (last edited 12/10/2007 09:38AM)
12/10/2007 09:37AM

224722 I am hearing nothing but bad things on this one...and I LOVED the Lovely Bones...

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message 4: by Kris
03/12/2008 05:43PM

783368 I just finished this book the other night and you are RIGHT ON!

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