Groping for Luna

By Pam Summa

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972475273
• ISBN13: 9780972475273
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Mystic River Ink
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Age Range: 17 years and up

Customer Reviews

The tangled interweavings of fallible human beings

Groping For Luna is a dramatic novel by Pam Summa of love, relationships, and clashes of sharp temper. Two bandmates, Joe and Angel, have been best friends for an age; but when Angel falls in love with Alice, Joe becomes fiercely protective of his fellow man. When Angel leaves town for a week, he hopes the woman he loves and the man he has know for so long and learn to at least get along, but the two have other plans beneath their fake smiles. Enhanced with 15 stamp art illustrations, Groping For Luna offers the reader a complex drama of the tangled interweavings of fallible human beings and documents Pam Summa as a writer of considerable promise. Her readers will look eagerly toward her next novel!

But it's so much more than a rock novel!

The world of struggling musicians is more at the fringes of the book, and the characters are at the center. The writing is wonderful--zippy but never shallow, and the dialogue crackles. She skewers the male psyche without man-bashing in the least, and shows up female foibles, too. This is a wise, funny, compassionate, hip, bittersweet story, full of telling details, with its fair share of belly laughs. And the steamy sceenes actually seem to belong to the story, something many writers just can't pull off.

I read this book cover to cover!

Groping for Luna is a thoroughly enjoyable read. The characters are vivid and three dimensional. They are gritty and awkward and real - often doing or saying the wrong thing and struggling to piece a life together. This is an engaging story of artists and musicians who never achieve great fame or fortune but never-the-less spend their lives working at it. On the journey, the main characters bang up against many of the of the stereotypical trappings of a career in rock music - drugs, sex and betrayal and to my surprise move through them in ways more real than fiction normally portrays. And as an added bonus the plot is full of surprises. I couldn't stop reading (I read cover to cover all night)- I wanted to know what would happen next. The end is a pleasant surpirse which I won't spoil. I thoroughly recommend this book.