Luna Rising
By Selene Castrovilla
Genre: Women's Fiction
About
the Book
Life
begins at thirty-eight for Long Island mom and writer Luna Lampanelli, when she
kicks her secretly gay husband to the curb. She's got her freedom, but what she
wants is love. Luna knows she doesn't need a man to exist, but try telling that
to her heart. Against the advice of Sunny, her snarky best friend, and Jiminy,
the cautioning voice in Luna's head who just won't shut up, Luna sets course to
find a mate. Luna speed and on-line dates her way into several short-lived,
surreal relationships. There's Ari, the humorless Israeli who refuses to
assimilate – to America, and to humanity. There's Alex, the young and handsome
ex-crackhead who informs Luna he doesn't want to be monogamous—while they're in
bed. There's Memphis, the wild-eyed sadomasochist. There's Red, angry and
crippled, who becomes the catalyst for Luna to join Sex and Love Addicts
Anonymous. But before Luna can proceed to recovery, she meets the elusive but
oh so appealing Trip. He's emotionally unavailable and has the Madonna-Whore
Complex, but how can Luna (aka "whore") let him go when she enjoys
his dry wit so much, and his body even more? Humorously haunting and packed
with unspeakable truths, Luna Rising follows a woman's funny and heart-breaking
struggle to relate with un-relatable men and an un-relatable world, and to
figure out something even more un-relatable: herself.
About
the Author
Selene
Castrovilla debuts in women’s fiction with Luna Rising, but she’s no stranger
to publishing. An award-winning teen and children's author, Selene believes
that through all trends, humanity remains at the core of literature. Her novel
Melt, Book One of the Rough Romance Trilogy, received six honors including the
IndieReader Discovery Award Grand Prize for Fiction. Revolutionary Friends:
General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, her third nonfiction
picture book about the American Revolution, was the recipient of four awards
including Booklist Top Ten Biography for Youth, International School
Librarians’ Honor Book and Eureka! California Reading Association Honor
Book. A companion book, Revolutionary Rogues: John André and Benedict
Arnold, is hot off the presses. Selene holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
The New School and a B.A. in English from New York University. She lives on
Long Island with her two sons and too many cats, where she sits on her deck in
the summer, fall and spring (and at her picture window in the winter) and
writes. She loves the color purple and coffee. Selene plays well with others,
but with words even better. She is so grateful to do what she loves. National
Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson calls Selene “a writer worth watching.”
Visit www.SeleneCastrovilla.com.
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On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Luna-Rising-Selene-Castrovilla/dp/0991626192
On Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32963894-luna-rising
On B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/luna-rising-selene-castrovilla/1125286165
Hi Kelina, Thanks so much for kicking off my blog tour with this spotlight of Luna Rising! I'm in continual awe of the dedication book bloggers have toward literature, and I'm so grateful for your support. It has become more and more challenging to convince people to take time out of their over-scheduled, social media driven, Netflix-watching lives to open a book and bond with it. Thank you for being a conduit. You're awesome!!!
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