topics: |  fiction | erotica

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is an American epic of the old West
for our own times -- a novel huge in its imaginative scope and daring in its
themes. The narrator is Shed, or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy
who makes his living at the Indian Head Hotel in the little
turn-of-the-century town of Excellent, Idaho. The imperious Ida Richilieu is
Shed's employer, the town's mayor and the mistress, and the mistress and
owner of this outrageously pink whorehouse. Together with the beautiful
prostitute Alma Hatch, and the philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy
Dellwood Barker, this collection of misfits and outcasts make up the core of
Shed's eccentric family. And although laced with the ugliness and cruelty of
the frontier West -- Shed is raped by the same man who then murders the woman
he thinks is his mother, and the Mormon townspeople bring a fiery end to
Ida's raucous way of life -- the love and acceptance that tie this family
together provide the true heart of this novel. The Man Who Fell in Love with
the Moon is a beautifully told, mythic tale that is as well a profound
meditation on sexualty,race and man's relationship to himself and the natural
world.