From Library Journal:
Although its gutsy heroine must grapple with such tough issues as infidelity, divorce, aging parents, and teenage experimentation with sex, drugs, and alcohol, this outstanding first novel is never depressing. Resilient Joanne Green, picking her way throughout the minefield of modern existence, tries and generally succeeds in maintaining a sense of perspective. Shapiro's writing has a luminescent quality that imbues each episode--whether it's Joanne's trip with her former husband to visit his parents in Florida, an agonizing night when neither of her teenagers comes home until dawn, or a vigil at her mother's bedside after cancer surgery--with a clarity of vision that makes the protagonist's experiences our own. After Moondog is a tragicomedy for our times.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly:
This uncommonly graceful and nuanced first novel, spanning 25 years from the Vietnam War era to the present, explores a marriage and its consequences.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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