A review by legsbian
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

Oh, the humanity! No star rating because I'm not entirely sure if I liked the book, but it's safe to say that I will be thinking about it for a long time. 

Years later, when I'd tell Dellwood Barker about sitting on the rock that jutted out, at sunset, my mother smoke and fire behind me, he'd listen—Dellwood would listen. Then he'd say this:
"Smoke and wind and fire are all things you can feel but can't touch. Memories and dreams are like that too. They're what this world is made up of. There's really only a very short time that we get hair and teeth and put on red cloth and have bones and skin and look out eyes. Not for long. Some folks longer than others. If you're lucky, you'll get to be the one who tells the story: how the eyes have seen, the hair has blown, the caress the skin has felt, how the bones have ached."

The list of content warnings should probably be about a mile long. And if you prefer your novels with a certain Christian morality to them, this is not the book for you.

Fulfilled the Idaho prompt of the A Queer Literary Tour Through the USA reading challenge.
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