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davidjordan 's review for:
The Book of Moon
by George Crowder
A book club in which I've recently begun to participate has chosen this book for our next meeting. Otherwise, I'm not sure if I would have had the good fortune to discover this title on my own. This novel was thoroughly entertaining and provided me with much more joy than I had any reason to anticipate. The narrator is an intelligent, witty, and philosophically complex teenage boy who never fails to inspire hope in this reader that the future is in good hands as long as there are (actual) people like Moon Landing. His perpetual search for spiritual meaning, intellectual challenges, authentic relationships, and pretty girls left me encouraged and amused in equal measure. The thematic underpinning concerning the interpretive difficulties related to the Book of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures was also right in this Presbyterian pastor's wheelhouse (me). Comic, tender, and hopeful in execution, Crowder has written an unusually good novel that he modestly claims may not "be for everyone," but I'm not convinced that's true. I want everybody to have a chance to read this.