Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
It has been one month, since Sally dumped Jack and he still pines for her even though he knows they were never compatible. Perhaps it is unrequited love, but more likely his lost feelings are because she was the twenty-two years old graduate student's first and only girl friend. Jack's former college roommate and his current roommate encourage Jack to pick up a girl at the Mother Earth bar. Instead seventeen years old Loni drags Jack onto the dance floor. Unlike Jack, Loni has experienced too much of life in short time. Her virginity went three years ago and a string of lovers have followed. Jack and Loni have nothing in common yet she teaches him how to love and be loved at the same time his deep feelings for her freeze her like a deer in headlights. Though she was his mentor, Jack wonders if his beloved teacher can ever accept someone loving her for herself?
A FACE IN THE MOON is more than a coming of age story. Instead, it is an emotionally deep story that takes the reader so deep inside a lonely, sad young man readers will hold their breath knowing that they cannot escape until the book is finished. The story line focuses on the new love between Jack and Loni by leaving the audience to wonder if their relationship can survive the external attacks from friends and society and the internal battles caused by major insecurities. With more novels like his debut tale that demonstrates Mitchell Waldman tremendous talent for genuine characters in real life settings, the author will not remain faceless for very long.