Black Moon A Novel Author:Kenneth Calhoun For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls ?Gripping and expertly constructed.? — Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quick... more »ly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
����� He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness.� Chase and his buddy Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings; Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask, no longer safe with her insomniac parents; Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend.� Meanwhile, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had.
����� Kenneth Calhoun has written a brilliant evocation of how personal connection can keep us grounded in the face of chaos.� Black Moon is devastatingly vivid, hypnotically strange, and profoundly moving.« less