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Keeper of the Moon
A Southern Boyhood
Tim McLaurin
Down Home Press
978-1-878086-68-6
$14.95 paperback
5 ½ x 8 ½
316 pages
Published in 1991
Bio/Memoir
A childhood gift of a telescope made Tim McLaurin "the keeper of the moon" and set him on the path to becoming a writer. But just as his second novel was about to come out, a diagnosis of bone marrow cancer not only threatened his life but sent him on an introspective journey into his own past. This fascinating, prize-winning memoir was the result, bringing acclaim both from critics and from fellow Southern novelists.
Reviews
“What a book Tim McLaurin has written! Full of exuberance, pain, violence, joy, and the kind of wisdom that’s hard to come by.”
Lee Smith
“Keeper of the Moon is a book that touches the hearts of ghosts.”
Clyde Edgerton
“Here is an honesty that will make you weep, laugh, grind your teeth and howl at the moon, all of it done—strange to say—with a joy as mysterious and unanswerable as the beating of your own heart.”
Harry Crews
“Keeper of the Moon . . . sings and dances and uplifts the human heart. This is fine and beautiful writing, sad and funny and deeply moving.”
Larry Brown
“An honest, absorbing memoir of a real life [in which] mortality is taken head-on.”
Roy Blount
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