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Luna Rising
Luna Rising

Luna Rising

12+

FICTION

450 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper, Mobipocket, EPUB

Trade Paper, $14.99 (US $14.99) (CA $19.99)

Publication Date: June 2017

ISBN 9780991626199

Rights: US & CA

Last Syllable Books (Jun 2017)

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Overview

Winner, 2017 Book Excellence Award in Chick LitLife begins at thirty-eight for Long Island mom and writer Luna Lampanelli, when she kicks her secretly gay husband to the curb. She's got her freedom, but what she wants is love. Luna knows she doesn't need a man to exist, but try telling that to her heart. Against the advice of Sunny, her snarky best friend, and Jiminy, the cautioning voice in Luna's head who just won't shut up, Luna sets course to find a mate. Luna speed and on-line dates her way into several short-lived, surreal relationships. There's Ari, the humorless Israeli who refuses to assimilate – to America, and to humanity. There's Alex, the young and handsome ex-crackhead who informs Luna he doesn't want to be monogamous—while they're in bed. There's Memphis, the wild-eyed sadomasochist. There's Red, angry and crippled, who becomes the catalyst for Luna to join Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. But before Luna can proceed to recovery, she meets the elusive but oh so appealing Trip. He's emotionally unavailable and has the Madonna-Whore Complex, but how can Luna (aka "whore") let him go when she enjoys his dry wit so much, and his body even more? Humorously haunting and packed with unspeakable truths, Luna Rising follows a woman's funny and heart-breaking struggle to relate with un-relatable men and an un-relatable world, and to figure out something even more un-relatable: herself.

Reviews

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Radio Underground is featured on Lauren Conrad's instagram in its own post. —https://www.instagram.com/p/BsY7UAln7_G/  

Author Biography

Selene Castrovilla is the Long Island liaison for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Metro-NY Chapter, and a former chair of the Long Island Children's Writers and Illustrators. She is the author of Melt and Signs of Life. She lives in Island Park, New York.

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