A Face in the Moon

A Face In The Moon Is A Look Back At Those Lost Days When Colors Seemed More Vivid And When Being In Love Seemed The Only Thing That Mattered. The Narrator Jack Lohman Is An Inexperienced Twenty-Two-Year Old Who Was Recently Dumped By His First Real Girlfriend And Is Soon To Leave Graduate School For Who Knows What. Enter Loni A Bright-Eyed Free-Spirited Seventeen-Year Old Who Has Had More Than Her Share Of Experience -- She Lost Her Virginity On Her Fourteenth Birthday Has Had More Boyfriends And Drugs Than She Cares To Remember As Well As A Mental Breakdown That She'S Trying Her Best To Forget. From The Moment Jack Meets Loni His Life Begins To Change. She Teaches Him How To Laugh And Makes Him Feel For Perhaps The First Time In His Life That He Can Be Loved Without Judgment. Yet Ironically It Is Loni'S Harsh Self-Evaluation That Paralyzes Her At Times Turning The Carefree Uninhibited Woman/Child Into A Speechless Listless Teenager Who Laments The Days When Life Used To Be More Fun. She Promises To Tell Jack Some Day About Her Breakdown Of The Summer Before But For Now It'S Still Too Painful For Her. Meanwhile Jack Loves Her But Wonders If She'Ll Ever Fully Let Him Into Her Life. A Face In The Moon Is A Story About Two Young Lovers Struggling To Find Each Other And Their Ways In The World. And When A Series Of Events Keeps Them Apart Longer Than Expected It Becomes The Story Of Whether Their New Love Can Survive The Pressures Of Separation And Emotional Disturbance.