THE MOON IS REAL, A Novel by Jerrod Edson (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Jerrod Edson. Published by Urban Farmhouse Press, Detroit, MN., 2016, 1st Edition. Ultra Rare: Flat SIGNED by the Author & SIGNED and dedicated by the Author's Mother, Alice Edson, to her personal friend. Printed in USA. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8 x 5.5 inch, 139 pages.

Welcome to seedier side of Saint John, New Brunswick. This working class city on the shores of the Bay of Fundy is home to postman and amateur poet Charlie White. The original manuscript for The Moon is Real was the winner of the 2013 David Adams Richards Prize.

Charlie is a hopeless romantic who rediscovers the woman he longs for with a chance run-in with Prin. When his buddy Eddie Smythe finds himself dangerously in arears to the wrong guys, Charlie and Prin are drawn into a dangerous game of survival in this city on the bay. Two hit men arrive to deliver a message to Eddie and unleash a whirlwind of events around the city just as Charlie and Prin learn about a love they never knew they had and nearly left years ago. Full of memorable characters and told from the view of the world from the hard-scramble working class of Atlantic Canada, Edson's tale shows the extent to which the everyday can spiral into the exceptional.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: I was born in 1974 in Saint John, NB, and grew up in Rothesay. I attended Kennebecasis Valley High School, and then went on to get degrees from Carleton University in Ottawa and York University in Toronto. I currently live in Mississauga, ON, with my wife and daughters Hadley and Harper. I have five novels: The Moon is Real (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2016), The Goon (Oberon Press, 2010), A Place of Pretty Flowers (Oberon Press, 2007), The Dirty Milkman (Oberon Press, 2005), and The Making of Harry Cossaboom (DreamCatcher Publishing, 2000).