Undressing the Moon - Softcover

Greenwood, Tammy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312303270 ISBN 13: 9780312303273

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003

Synopsis

Piper Kincaid has never been able to forget the summer she turned fourteen--or understand its consequences. At thirty and diagnosed with breast cancer, Piper is drawn back to that time and filled with regret. As she attempts to reassemble the fragments of her history, what emerges is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a young woman whose indefatigable spirit prevails, despite shattered dreams. An evocative, richly-told novel of coming-of-age and coming-to-terms, Undressing the Moon finds grace in wreckage and hope in a broken life.

About this title

About the Author:

Tammy Greenwood, born in Vermont, now lives in Ocean Beach, California
with her husband, Patrick Stewart. She is the author of Breathing Water, winner
of the 1999 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award, and Nearer Than the Sky, a Book Sense 76 selection. She received The William Goyen-Doris Roberts Fellowship for Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation for selections from Undressing the Moon.

From Library Journal:

Piper Kincaid is 30 years old and has already endured three years of treatment for breast cancer. As she considers life with metastatic breast disease, she also returns to the year she was 14, when her mother left and she came to understand how lives get broken. In Greenwood's third novel (after Breathing Water and Nearer Than the Sky), chapters alternate between Piper's story today and 16 years earlier. Her mother collected broken glass and created beautiful pieces of art, but she couldn't live with her husband's fears of losing her. She managed to get away, leaving Piper and her older brother, Quinn, with their father, who eventually found a new girlfriend and ostensibly moved out. How Piper grew up that year without either parent, how she and her best friend, Becca, discovered performing, and how she became aware of the neediness and cruelty of others intersects with Piper's cancer ordeal. Greenwood uses glass to represent both beauty and baseness, creation and destruction, and life and death. This beautiful story, eloquently told, demands attention. Highly recommended. Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal"
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About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312303270
• ISBN 13: 9780312303273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256