Vanishing Moon

A chorus of candid and poignant voices narrates this novel about a working-class American family who struggles to succeed through five turbulent decades from the Depression to the Vietnam War. First Stephen Tollman looks back on his early adventures with his older brother Philip as the boys try to shield their younger siblings from the vulnerability of financial ruin. Years later the vibrant and ambitious Katherine Lennox mesmerizes Stephen and Philip as they both tragically fall in love with her. Then Philip's son James comes of age in the 1960s striving to understand his father's deep anger amid a summer of assassinations and civil unrest. <p/>Together these voices create an insightful beautiful and deeply psychological story about the American working class about the strength and strain of family bonds and finally about hardships that haunt the human psyche over a lifetime. <p/>