Guarding the Moon
 Francesca Lia Block
 (Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
 2003 HarperResource
 ISBN: 0066213673

A Mother's First Year.

“I feel as if I have been called on to guard the moon herself. A moon with dimples and a tiny crooked grin. How do you do this? How do you safely carry the moon around on this earth?”

& so we embark upon Francesca Lia Block's first year as a mother. Told with the raw awe-inspired language of a new parent, one who has known the sorrow of stillbirth, Guarding the Moon is a profound & unique record of the exploration, humor & drama that every first-time mother inherits.

Francesca Lia Block has a silky way with words, they flow through your mind like a soft scented zephyr, even the times of heartache & dread.

Guarding the Moon has another layer to it, that of a woman, entranced by the rigors of athletics & aesthetics, finally coming into owning her internal inheritance & taking care of her reproductive needs.

Meditative, like a lullaby, this is a love story from a mother to her infant, reminding us of the deepest kind of love we know.

Quite simply a delight, Guarding the Moon is for every thinking woman who is planning to or has had her first baby, & for those well-worn Moms to remember why.

More from Francesca Lia Block:
The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Violet & Claire
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat books
I Was a Teenage Fairy
Girl Goddess #9
The Hanged Man
Echo
Wasteland
Witch Baby
Nymph
(08/03/03)

Rebecca