Helpful Score: 2
Mike Smoliji is 16 when his father leaves their family. Actually most of the men from Maple Rock leave. The wives are left to raise their families and make new lives and Mike and his friends who are unable to leave their neighborhood remain to stumble through their twenties and into marriages, jobs and families of their own. This is an interesting book about a young boy trying to find himself and his future. Sometimes it's easier to think that your dad is on the moon, then the fact that he abandoned you. What would happen if the moon called out to Mike and his friends? What would happen if one of the dad's came back?
Helpful Score: 1
I could not get into this book. It's quite gloomy, all the dads in this working class section of town disappear one by one and the story is told through the eyes of a boy who's dad leaves. There didn't seem to be any relief from the sadness of it all.
