Undressing The Moon

by T. Greenwood

Book Overview

Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . . At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758238762
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Kensington
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 0.8" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Quietly poetic writing, unreachable characters, dissipating plot

The writing feels quietly poetic throughout the novel. The characters are compelling yet always seem slightly out of reach and fraught with an inability to process emotions. There is a rawness to the story but then turns into a slow drip, drip towards the end with too many long awaited issues left unresolved and hanging for reader speculation. Cancer, child molestation and unpunished rape are a difficult topics to weave into any novel. Sadly, this story leaves a residue of the gloom of futility even after the last page. This is a life-is-unfair and you-rarely-get-explanations novel. Even so, it's actually fairly true to life.

Fan of T. Greenwood

I have read and LOVED all of T. Greenwood's books, but this one especially touched my heart. I picked it up and couldn't put it down! I was instantly drawn into this lovely, haunting, beautiful story of a young woman struggling with cancer and reflecting back on the events surrounding the loss of her mother. Please read this book! I can't wait for T. Greenwood's next novel, she is an amazing writer!!

serendipity

I went to the library and found this unassuming little book perched among the new releases...sounded good, took it home, opened it up and WOW!!! What a pleasant surprise...this is a very charismatic story...one of those rare books I could not put down...it's actually a pretty simple story of a woman with a terminal disease who reflects upon the circumstances of her life with lovely allegories of colors and glass and simple symbols. I highly recommend this uncomplicated yet poetic novel........

Rich in metaphor, a novel you will not forget

Thirty-year old Piper Kincaid faces terminal breast cancer in the care of her loving, life-long friend, Becca. The story alternates seamlessly between the present and Piper at age 14, the year her mother left the family and Piper entered into a relationship with a much older man. Color, glass, and the realignment of broken things are dominant metaphors in this novel. Greenwood's language is beautiful, and the story flows like a river, from longing to loss to forgiveness. I'm sorry I didn't discover this magnificent voice sooner, and am now reading "Nearer Than the Sky."

Heartwrenching and beautiful

Nobody writes like this. No one can capture what T. Greenwood captures in all that she creates. Her third novel, Undressing The Moon, is as stunning if not more beautiful and heartwrenching than her previous two. Undressing The Moon is told through Piper, both in her youth struggling with life, and in her present day adulthood. At fourteen, her mother left. In present day, she is dying of breast cancer. There is beautiful imagery that surrounds glass and colors throughout the entire book, and the mending of such things. This book breaks your heart too, and instead of mending it completely, it leaves a piece missing so that you'll always remember this story. But stories like this are impossible to forget anyway. Read all of her books, you will not be disappointed. There are many things to experience, learn and taste in her stories. Nobody writes like T. Greenwood, nobody.

Stunning

I bless the day I discovered T. Greenwood, a writer who has such depth that her words flow from the pages into my soul, touching me with their beauty. I love her references to color in this book, reflecting back to the memories of Piper's mother who deserted her at a critical time in her life. Piper has been hurt by everyone who ever loved her with the exception of her brother Quinn and her best friend Becca, both of whom come back into her life as she comes closer to its end. Read this book if you care about people's feelings. Read this book if you love words which join together like the stitches of an afghan as they create a story which you're sure was written just for you. If you haven't read anything else by T. Greenwood, you will after reading UNDRESSING THE MOON. And if you have read BREATHING WATER & NEARER THE SKY you will not be disappointed with this one either.