Description

The Whole of the Moon consists of six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66 from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby

An actor sits poolside waiting to hear whether he has been cast in a television pilot Two kids ditch school in 1964 and go for a hike in the woods that turns dangerous A woman named Dot remembers her husband who spent years working on a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby A young woman Felicity deals with the consequences of an unexpected pregnancy Mike a former high school star attends an open tryout for the California Angels baseball team And a boarding school teacher tells the story of his cousin a social climber who has disappeared in the wake of a murder These are the characters that populate The Whole of the MoonBrian Rogers novel is about determination and failure and life in Southern California away from the red carpet