Ill Watch the Moon, Ann Tatlock. (Paperback 0983319626)

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I'll Watch the Moon
Author: Ann Tatlock

From Publishers Weekly When polio stalked Minnesota in 1948, fear was every mother's constant companion, as Tatlock (All the Way Home) shows in this well-written story for the evangelical Christian market. Young Nova Tierney and her older brother, Dewey, live a mostly idyllic life despite sharing living space with a motley assortment of tenan... more »ts at the boarding house run by their Aunt Dortha and mother, Catherine. Dewey, nicknamed "Galileo" for his love of astronomy, dreams of some day walking on the moon, and he and Nova spend many happy hours looking at the night sky together in their backyard. When Dewey is hospitalized with polio, Nova promises to watch the moon for him (thus the title) until he is well. But will he recover? In her bitterness over a childhood secret, her late husband's infidelity and her son's desperate illness, his mother turns her back on God. "Sometimes, I wonder how we all go on living," she muses. Hope begins to return when she strikes up a friendship with boarder and Auschwitz survivor Josef Karski. Meanwhile, Nova exchanges letters with her brother and dreams of having a father again. She takes comfort in the stars: "as long as the moon was in its place and the stars were burning and the planets were moving through their spheres... everything was all right." This beautiful story laced with hope, redemption and forgiveness should find wide appeal among CBA readers. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Award-winning novelist Ann Tatlock once again lovingly crafts a story that will touch readers' hearts while illuminating a powerful spiritual truth. I'll Watch the Moon is the story of Catherine Tierney, angry at a God whom she no longer believes exists, and her painful journey back to faith. It is also the story of her friendship with Josef Karski, who teaches her how to trust in God as he reveals his own story of surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. And finally, it is the story of Nova Tierney, Catherine's daughter, and the threads that bind their lives together. Ann Tatlock has skillfully and gracefully wove a tale readers won't soon forget. ? WINNER, Midwest Independent Publishers Association, First Place-General Fiction, 2003 ? WINNER, Best of Genre - Christian Fiction: Library Journal, 2003 ? A"Crossings Book Club Selection", 2003 * A "Recorded Books" Selection, 2003 * Norwegian edition published by Lunde Forlag; Oslo, Norway, 2007 Reviews of this book -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is a moving and wonderfully encouraging novel...one of the most realistic and significant ones I've read, and one that leaves a great inspiration and message of trust in God for the outcome of all things...I highly recommend it." -- Renownmagazine.com "In post-World War II America, nine-year-old Nova Tierney worries about Russian bombs, but mostly she wants to find a suitable candidate to marry her mother and give her a new "pa." Catherine, a tormented soul, is terrified that the polio epidemic will touch her children. When it does strike Nova's 13-year-old brother, Dewey, Catherine weathers the blow via an unlikely friendship with a concentration camp survivor. Dewey's dream is to be the first man to land on the moon, and Nova promises to "watch the moon" for him until he gets better. In her third novel, Tatlock continues to weave 20th-century history into absorbing, finely crafted literary tales with issues of spirituality springing naturally from the text. For all collections and readers who enjoy realistic and hopeful family dramas." -- Library Journal

ISBN-13: 9780983319627
ISBN-10: 0983319626
Publication Date: 9/30/2011
Pages: 370
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Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Kelly R. (mooncake03) reviewed I'll Watch the Moon on 11/14/2005 + 11 more book reviews

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This is one of my favorite novels! I loved it!

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Chris R. (Cantnever) reviewed I'll Watch the Moon on 4/9/2009 + 161 more book reviews

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I'm reading this book right now, and it's so GOOD. I can't believe I've found one of those wonderful, favorite books one never forgets. I actually wanted to read her newest book, but it wasn't available and this one was - so I settled... But now I'm so glad I got this one!

The characters are real, the descriptions vibrate. The narration fantastic. I am loving it. Maybe you would too?

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LeeAnn T. (polar) reviewed I'll Watch the Moon on 11/13/2011 + 60 more book reviews

Just finished this book. It was so good. I learned a lot about the polio epidemic..How grateful we must be to not have to face this awful disease. The characters were really engaging and the story was heartbreaking. Would recommend.

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