The Time of Blue Moons (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631031366)

The phone rings, interrupting the laughter of a summer party. At fourteen years old, Michael stands on the unsteady ground of adolescence and a dark family secret. Michael's eyes, witness to years of verbal and physical abuse, shift to his mother as the glass she drops shatters on the ground. He waits for the imminent arrival of his alcoholic father, certain to decimate his world beyond repair. Will Michael break a promise to save his mother or lose her forever?

The Time of Blue Moons is a coming-of-age novel. Written in four parts, it recalls Michael and his mother's summer trips to the beach from 1957 to 1969 and the relationships they form with Lucy and her great-aunt as well as Henry, a charming bookshop owner with a hidden connection to his mother's past. Set in the time of blue moons - the intersection of wondrous childhood, first love, and the moon landing - the work explores the cost of secrets. Walk with Michael down the stone steps to the beach and up the spiral staircase of Nobska Light, ride a ferry to Martha's Vineyard and a horse on the Flying Horses Carousel, and gaze upon the moon's surface through his Skyscope telescope for the first time.