Alison Acheson

Put One On the Moon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Put One on the Moon, Joe and Henry explore the hidden corners of a small town named Bend.

Joe begins the process of putting together courage to question the meaning of family. His mother and little brother, Ben, seem both able to fit in to small town life. His father, who they left in Boston, is about to have a second family, and Joe envisions this new family as replacing the old, one by one. He feels not at home, neither here nor there.

In this work of growing up, he meets Memphis, the veteran who lives in a trailer that can't go anywhere. And Morley Hudson, volunteer at the town museum, keeper of historical stories. And Tabitha, who has created a home in an abandoned church, surrounded by garden and sacred words. Tabitha, aging daughter of a minister, says, "I'm not at all sure that my kind of faith is something to ring bells about." Indeed, the bell tower of her home is boarded up and locked.

What started out as an innocent tagging quest in an innocuous placea movie-set towntakes an ugly turn as Henry questions life itself. Joe has to actwith friendship, and with new and raw faith.

Put One on the Moon is a story of "going deep," of making time to pause, to challenge our fears, and to allow for changemaybe even exploration of our very soul. Someday a Kilroy was Here will be on the moon. Meanwhile, here on earth, our own backyard is more likely to be in need of what the old World War II symbol "Kilroy" represents: seeking out, acknowledging, and tagging the unknown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alison Acheson
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227890931
• Artikelnr.: 72346504

Autorenporträt

Alison Acheson has published eleven books for all ages, from picturebooks to short stories, novels, and memoir. Her YA novel, Mud Girl, was a finalist for Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year.

Alison has taught in the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia, and now has a writers' newsletter, the Unschool for Writers:

https://unschoolforwriters.substack.com/

She lives in the East Side of Vancouver, Canada, in a little house with a wood stove.