Some roads are taken to escape. Others lead you straight to someone who needs you.
Austen is a man broken by his past, heading west with nothing but the faint hope of a new beginning. When he stumbles upon a baby left alone in a rundown Missouri motel, he meets Taylor, a young mother fighting addiction and poverty in a town hollowed out by the opioid crisis. In a fragile act of grace, two lost people find each other and begin the long road toward healing. Set against the vast American landscape from Missouri to the California desert, American Moon is a novella about survival, connection, and what remains of the American Dream when everything else has fallen away.
Winner of the Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas.
For readers of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, and Jack Kerouac, American Moon is the road novel you have been waiting for.