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      Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

      by Dean Bakopoulos
      Published
      Jan 2006
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      288
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      The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, 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, and, in a more promising era, worked. One man 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 drink, brawl, and sleep around, gradually settling down to make new lives and shaking off the belief in an American dream that, like their husbands, has proven to be a thing of the past. Unable to leave the neighborhood their fathers abandoned, Michael and his friends stumble through their twenties until the restlessness of the fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away.

      This is a haunting, unforgettable novel for anyone who has ever been left longing.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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      First Edition Jan 2006 Harvest ISBN13 9780156031677 ISBN10 0156031671
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      Feb 2005 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780606348935 ISBN10 060634893X
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      Mar 2005 Harcourt ISBN13 9780151011353 ISBN10 0151011354
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      Sep 2006 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417731367 ISBN10 1417731362
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      Jan 2006 Harcourt ISBN13 9780547543581 ISBN10 0547543581
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      Jan 2006 Houghton Mifflin ISBN10 B0071MDBWY
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      Jul 2011 Transworld (UK) ISBN13 9781446487907 ISBN10 1446487903
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