For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls "Gripping and expertly constructed." Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.
Black Moon is his first novel..
He lives in Boston, where he is a graphic design professor at Lasell College.
Henry Prize Collection, among others.
About the Author: KENNETH Calhoun has had stories published in The Paris Review, Tin House, and the 2011 Pen/O.
Kenneth Calhoun has written a brilliantly realized and utterly riveting depiction of a world gripped by madness, one that is vivid, strange, and profoundly moving.
However, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had.
Money can\'t buy it, no drug can touch it, and there are those who would kill to have it.
All around, sleep has become an infinitely precious commodity.
Chase and his buddy Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings
Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask, no longer safe with her insomniac parents
Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend.
He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness.
Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world.
For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls "Gripping and expertly constructed." Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows
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