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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (2005)

de Dean Bakopoulos

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This tale of young men growing up in a working-class Michigan town without fathers to guide them is "melancholy, surreal, and funny all at once" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

The summer Michael turns seventeen, 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, andâ??in a more promising eraâ??worked. One 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 left behind drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives. And Michael and his friends, stuck in the place where they have been abandoned, stumble through their twentiesâ??until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away . . .

With "echoes of Alice Hoffman's magic realism" (Booklist), this is a novel suffused with both humor and longing, by an author who has "considerable talent for capturing young-male ennui" (Entertainment Weekly).… (més)

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This was a surprisingly strong debut novel which I thoroughly enjoyed. Set in a working class suburb of Detroit predominantly occupied by Ukranians and Polish, in this coming of age story we follow the narrator and his circle of friends as they try to find their way following a mass desertion by the men folk in the area, who one by one disappeared into the night as prospects in the area dwindle away following mass factory closings.

As the friends grow up in a town with few employment prospects beyond the new shopping mall, Bakopoulos writes with absorbing prose as the youngsters try to make their way in life against the limiting odds of the realities of their environment.

4 stars - a beautifully written novel with writing that punches above its weight. I'll be looking out for more from this writer. ( )
  AlisonY | Feb 19, 2023 |
This was a surprising find in the bargain bin of a big box store--a slow, slightly fantastic, sadly realistic coming of age story that captures life in lower middle-class, unexceptional McDonald's America in a way that few writers really bother to do.

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  EQReader | Dec 1, 2020 |
Moving first-person tale of young men maturing without a father in the Detroit working class Slavic suburbs after the factory closings,1990-2003. This novel is fresh, vivid: education is not redemptive, although the boys read labor histories, Dostoyevsky, Homer, philosophy, the Best American Short Stories. I can picture what he's talking about—the insides of houses, the bars, the shopping malls, supermarkets, the spas, the peripheral political events, the habits people have as they're talking. The chapter on the gathering of the sons in the parking lot is heartbreakingly eloquent. Although there's a touch of magic realism — "For the first time that night I looked at the moon as I walked and this is when I felt my feet leave the earth: I started walking a few inches off of the ground, as if I were following some invisible staircase" — it's in the context of conscious dream, and hence, believable. ( )
  deckla | May 23, 2018 |
Maybe 3.5. ( )
  CydMelcher | Feb 5, 2016 |
Maybe 3.5. ( )
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This tale of young men growing up in a working-class Michigan town without fathers to guide them is "melancholy, surreal, and funny all at once" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

The summer Michael turns seventeen, 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, andâ??in a more promising eraâ??worked. One 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 left behind drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives. And Michael and his friends, stuck in the place where they have been abandoned, stumble through their twentiesâ??until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away . . .

With "echoes of Alice Hoffman's magic realism" (Booklist), this is a novel suffused with both humor and longing, by an author who has "considerable talent for capturing young-male ennui" (Entertainment Weekly).

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