Girls in the Moon
Written by Janet McNally
Narrated by Erin Spencer and Amanda Dolan
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Everyone in Phoebe Ferris’s life tells a different version of the truth.
Her mother, Meg, ex-rock star and professional question evader, shares only the end of the story—the post-fame calm that Phoebe’s always known. Her sister Luna, indie rock darling of Brooklyn, preaches a stormy truth of her own making, selectively ignoring the facts she doesn’t like. And her father, Kieran, the co-founder of Meg’s beloved band, hasn’t said anything at all since he stopped calling three years ago.
But Phoebe, a budding poet in search of an identity to call her own, is tired of half-truths and vague explanations. When she visits Luna in New York, she’s determined to find out how she fits in to this family of storytellers, and maybe even to continue her own tale—the one with the musician boy she’s been secretly writing for months.
This soul-searching, authentic debut weaves together Phoebe’s story with scenes from the romance between Meg and Kieran that started it all—leaving behind a heartfelt reflection on family, fame, and finding your own way.
Janet McNally
Janet McNally is the author of the novels The Looking Glass and Girls in the Moon, as well as a prizewinning collection of poems, Some Girls. She has an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, and her stories and poems have been published widely in magazines. She has twice been a fiction fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Janet lives in Buffalo, New York, with her husband and three little girls, in a house full of records and books, and teaches creative writing at Canisius College. You can visit her online at www.janetmmcnally.com.
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Reviews for Girls in the Moon
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a really refreshing read for me. It's not something mind-blowing or life changing but it had some really great character driven moments. Sometimes I look at the piles of books sitting in the corner of my room and wonder what I'll find. I got this book a while ago and kept putting it off in favor of other hyped up books. Eventually, enough was enough and I really wanted a break from the marketed hype so I closed my eyes and picked one of my own books.Pheobe isn't talented like her sister Luna or even a musician like her parents. The performer gene was not passed down to her. Compared to their big and obvious presence Pheobe has a quiet one and just lets things happen to her. Her mother wants her to convince her sister to go back to college and her sister wants her to go support her at a performance before her band's tour starts. During the one week visit to her sister's place in Brooklyn, she's determined to start making things happen for herself. In snippets of flashbacks, Meg Ferris lives her life as a rock star from the end to the beginning with the love of her life and her best friends at her side. She loves the music and at one point the stage but did she really ever love the lifestyle it came with?I feel like I say this a lot but it's so rare for me to find a book with a likable main character. Pheobe is as flawed as a seventeen-year-old can get but she is self-aware. Her life doesn't change in a few days it just moves forward. Some of us wish that for just one day we could do something totally out of the ordinary for ourselves just to see what it's like and that's what she gets the opportunity to do. In Brooklyn, there's no best friend that's going to call dibs on the cute guy she's been talking to for months, her mom isn't going to low key dissuade her from mentioning her dad, and since she's feeling adventurous not even Luna is going to control her entire week. I can't tell if Meg's flashbacks were her remembering her past while Pheobe was away but in the end, I didn't need to know. Pheobe also wants to know where everything went wrong in her mom's band and why her parents broke up and it's all answered in her mother's memories. Even when something looks perfect on paper at the end of the day people are human and flawed and that's what makes the world go round. It was a week of self-discovery not necessarily change and I am here for that. This gets a high recommendation from me.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked it. It's not my favorite book or one that I would recommend to just anyone. The writing saved this one for me. I enjoyed it mostly for the writing and the themes in the book (I am a lover of rock and roll and all things music.) I really wish there had been a higher peak in what seemed to be the climax of the story. The emotional confusion of Phoebe was very well portrayed, I thought. There were certain phrases that were used to describe her emotions or her reactions that I really liked. (i.e. wanting to crumple the bill for no apparent reason other than she was minutely irritable, but then doesn't.) I dono, like I said, it's not my favorite book but I still found myself enjoying the journey even though it lacked a really well developed plot.