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

from FolkeB

The novel, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bokopoulos, is a story of a boy turning into a man in a suburb of Detroit. This story takes place in the late eighties and early nineties. The suburb has an interesting history of grown men, fathers in particular, leaving Maple Rock. The son...

from sanddancer

In a working class neighbourhood near Detroit, the men become disaffected with their lives and disappear, leaving behind notes saying they have gone to the moon. The book is narrated by Michael, who is 16 when his father leaves. Much of the book is just him going about his life, work, education a...

from olevia

would this author please, please write another book?

from midkid88

It was well written even though it wasn't my favorite book. It's about a town that suffers from a sudden leaving spree of all the fathers. The mothers tel their children that they "went to the moon" and so now the high school boys are the men of the town. Again, it wasn't my favorite, but it was ...

from TimBazzett

Dean Bakopoulos tells us that the title of his debut novel, PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON, comes from a jazz composition by Charles Mingus, but I was immediately reminded of another song, from the 1960s. Here is the opening verse from it - "Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of h...