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Original Title:	The Almost Moon
ISBN:	0316677469 (ISBN13: 9780316677462)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Helen Knightly, Clair Knightly, Jake Trevor

The Almost Moon Hardcover | Pages: 295 pages

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Title	:	The Almost Moon
Author	:	Alice Sebold
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 295 pages
Published	:	October 16th 2007 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Adult Fiction. Drama. Adult. Novels. Family

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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.

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Horrible, horrible, horrible. Bad in every way: terrible sentences, dreadful unbelievable characters, boring story. Includes this line, "This was not the first time I had been face-to-face with my mother's genitalia." Her genitalia has a FACE!!!! Downhill from there.

Let me start off by saying that I love Alice Sebold. 'Lucky' and 'Lovely Bones' were two books that stayed with me long after I finished them. That being said, I hate to say that 'Almost Moon' was such a disappointment to me. I had read all the bad reviews of it and thought 'It can't be that bad.' Unfortunately, it was. Was it because the story was about an unsympathetic narrator who kills her aged mother in the first chapter? Perhaps.The rest of the story unfolds as Helen both revisits memories

Have a healthy relationship with your parents? Then you probably won't relate to Helen, the protagonist who confesses to killing her mother in the first sentence of the novel. Alice Sebold doesn't expect you to understand what Helen has done-- even Helen doesn't quite understand it fully. Effort and compassion is needed just to start understanding the complexities of this mother-daughter relationship, and Sebold does a beautiful job exploring that aspect of an act that society condemns in a knee

I can see why a lot of people do not like this book but I kind of get it. I mean if I had to live like she did, with a mother like that I would be bitter and a bit on the weird side too! I think she is a bit like a "Wednesday Adams" type character. A little dark and misunderstood. I actually liked the book, more than the rating lead me to believe that I would. I also coincidentally read it on #bellletstalk day for Mental Illness and it was quite fitting. Decent Read!

(My full review of this book is much longer than GoodReads' word-count limitations. Find the entire essay at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)I freely admit it; that as a man, there are sometimes things that women do that utterly baffle me, and will probably continue to baffle me until the day I freaking die, just like it is with women regarding men. And that's because, avoiding any kind of qualitative judgment, I think we can all agree that there are

I enjoyed this novel, though not as much as Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones'. I didn't think it was stellar, but I thought it was solid. A lot of people took a massive shit on this book because they disliked Helen's character so much... but you know what? There are lots of ugly characters in the world, and they are far more believable than the fictional heroes and heroines we blindly champion because they offer us no incentive to wake up and smell the coffee. I like REAL characters, offensive or

This was just not worth the effort it took to get through it, at all. I could have gotten over the main character murdering her mother (which is within the first sentence, so don't panic about being spoiled) if she weren't so unpleasant in every other respect. First she murders her mother, and then she goes on to do other things that are just as cringe-worthy.I also could have gotten past how horrible a person Helen was...if they novel had any kind of point at all. I kept reading in hopes that