A Year Inside The Moon

At fifty-something Rob has reached a twilit crossroads. A recent divorcee hes fled Houston to settle in St. Petersburg Florida. Now peering up at the mockingbird singing in a banyan tree he wonders whether he could have done things differently.Across the road The Moon looms. Week after week as autumn fades into winter into spring Rob finds himself sat at the cosy bar watching locals and out-of-towners drift in and out their spectral lives affording brief glimpses into other worlds.Rob talks and listens--he meets UFO conspiracists South African ship-builders aging artists college students the ill the mourning--while out in the world Houston is swallowed by floods the #MeToo movement shakes America and beyond the Florida coast Hurricane Irma grows ever closer.Savoring each fleeting encounter Rob ponders the changing world and his own place within it. By the time Irma hits plunging Florida into chaos he barely recognizes himself--and when the mockingbirds gather once more in the banyan tree he realizes an even greater change is yet to come.