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    Undressing the Moon

    By T. Greenwood

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    At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed forever.

    What Piper dreaded came to pass: her restless, artistic mother, finally left. She had a brother who loved her, but her mother's absence, her father's distance, and a volatile secret threatened to destroy everything...

    Now Piper is once again left with the jagged pieces of a shattered life. If she is ever going to survive, she'll have to begin with the summer that broke them all...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCorvus
    Release dateDec 7, 2017
    ISBN9781786490988
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    T. Greenwood

    T. GREENWOOD's novels have sold over 300,000 copies. She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her novel Bodies of Water was a 2014 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, and she is the recipient of four San Diego Book Awards. Keeping Lucy was a 2020 Target Book Club pick. Greenwood lives with her family in San Diego and Vermont.

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    • 3/5
      At age thirty Piper Kincaid is dying of breast cancer. This is the end of what has hardly been an easy life. When Piper was a teenager her artist mother ran away, her spirit crushed by the burdens of poverty and motherhood. I expected that this would be a book about coming to terms with death, but it is actually a book about coming to terms with the loss of a mother. The year that Piper's mother left Piper finds herself drawn into a relationship with one of her male teachers. Piper's brother is committed to putting a stop to what is decidedly an inappropriate relationship, though Piper clings to it, feeling that she has lost so much else. I found this book to be rather difficult to get through, and I expected to like it more than I did. The subject matter sounded like something that would appeal to me, but the execution didn't match my expectations. I simply could not get invested in the characters and their web of decidedly vast problems.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! Couldn't put it down once I started reading. I enjoyed the back-and-forth between the adult Piper and the 14 year old Piper. Would have rated it a full 5 stars, if the ending hadn't been so abrupt. A few too many unanswered questions.
    • 3/5
      This story was rather depressing to me. I didn't hate reading it, and very much enjoyed parts of it, and found it easy to read when my own mood was not weighed down with Oregon spring rain. It may have been this depressing quality that made me wonder at the end "What's the point?" Did my own dark mood prevent me from seeing the point? Quite possibly, but Piper's recognition of the value of loving friendship was not enough for me. What did I miss? I didn't hate it it. I just didn't get it.Undressing The Moon is not a book I'd recommend to anyone feeling depressed or undergoing the difficulties Piper experienced, but I liked it enough to think it might be a good book for someone else.
    • 4/5
      Just a warning. This is not a novel for anyone very sensitive or sad. It will bring you down. Aside from that, the writing is quite beautiful. It carries this story in a simple, sincere, and heartfelt way. The story is of a young woman named Piper who is dying of cancer. She reflects back on her years of childhood, growing up in a poverty-stricken part of rural Vermont. Left with only her father and brother after her mother deserts her family, Piper tries to become more accepted at school by taking part in a school play. Her teacher, Nick Hammer, singles out Piper due to her beautiful voice. As their relationship becomes more complicated, Piper's father leaves home to live with a woman who has a son in her class.You see where this is going. Difficulties and pain as a child eventually turn into difficulties and pain as a young adult. Why was this book so good to read then? I think it was because I felt for Piper as she tried to survive all of the difficulties in her life. She had an amazing friend named Becca who was there for her both in childhood and in her equally difficult days as a grown woman. She had a brother Quinn who took on the role of a parent in order to keep some semblance of steadiness in Piper's life.This is a story about an individual wanting comfort and nurturing and just not quite knowing how to go about getting it. It's a story of a devoted friend and a brother as well as a story about surviving adversity. It's also definitely worth a read.
    • 4/5
      Piper's mom leaves the family when she is 14, and her life unravels. Now looking back as a sick late-twenties woman, she tries to figure out how she feels about the past. This book is beautifully, wonderfully written - I read it all day by the fire until I was done. It's incredibly sad, though -- it will touch deeply anyone who has been left or broken. Not a very happy read, but a highly satisfying one.
    • 4/5
      beautiful. sad. lonely little girl who was left by many and then built walls around her to not get her feelings hurt. But at the end she realizes who is her truest friend. Eventhough there is no action and the story floews like a small river, it is haunting and it stays with you.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful.
    • 5/5
      This book is so beautifully written that I gave it an extra 1/2 of a star. In some places it's almost like reading prose poetry. The story is heart-wrenching and yet empowering as well. It is told from the point of view of a very ill young woman, who shares how she came to be in her emotionally 'broken' state. It sounds like a maudlin topic, but the book is anything but. I will definitely read more books written by Tammy Greenwood.
    • 4/5
      "When you know your dying, things begin to make sense"Summary: Piper Kincaid, a thirty year old woman with terminal cancer, relives the life altering summer she turned fourteen through flashbacks, as she comes face to face with the increasing reality of her approaching death. That particular summer her beloved mother abandoned her family, leaving a void so large in Piper's life she is willing to fill it unconventionally, even if it means sacrificing herself. A "coming of age" and "coming to terms" novel which takes the reader on a journey of acceptance of oneself. Ramblings: Undressing the Moon touches on very sensitive subjects: being left behind, death and dying, rape and uncoventional relationships. Despite the serious overtones of the book T. Greenwood does a great job of writing a descriptively sad story without being overly morbid or morose. Reading the story reveals richly developed, likeable character dealing with difficult situations, mainly tied to loss and abandonment. Quinn, Piper's brother is the model brotherly figure stepping up to the plate, taking guardianship of Piper after their father eventually ditches them too. Becca, Piper's best friend is a beacon of light shining strong throughout the novel. She's the type of best friend everyone would love to find and truly fits the motto "best friend forever". Even Mr. Hammer, (the "villian") is a character the reader can muster a small amount of compassion for since he too is struggling with the death of his wife and losing his young daughter. Undressing the Moon follows the main character, Piper through both her past and present life. Some chapters are in the present and some chapters speak of Piper's past. Turning pages, its nearly impossible not to feel something for her horrific past and now present illness. As if it wasn't enough to have a miserable childhood, but then to grow up and become sick with a terminal disease, well it just seems so unfair! Piper has every right to throw a huge pity party, but she never does. Its her strength and her ability to preservere which make her so admirable. The only downfall to this book was the way it ended, its a bit open-ended, maybe that was the author's intention, though.Recommendation: Undressing the Moon is a sensitive read with mature topics. I'd recommend this book to adult readers or those 14 and older. Looking for a book which gives a different perspective on life, a read which makes one step back and re-examine how good life really has been, then pick up this book and start flipping pages.
    • 4/5
      On the surface this book is about the history of a girl who is abandoned by her mother at a young age. As we delve deeper there are many layers of other relationships that are the result of losing that relationship. Some of these relationships damage the young woman (Piper) permanently while some sustain her. My favorite part of the book is the way these relationships and incidents are related to crushed and broken items, particularly glass, that is woven throughout each part of the book.
    • 3/5
      I don't normally read books in which a character is dying of a disease. I put that aside in this novel as the other stories that were being told were most intriguing. It touches upon many interesting and controversial subjects including rape and abandonment. I find mother-daughter relationships most interesting to read because they can be most trying. Our childhoods are affected so deeply by our mother-daughter relationships, our very beings are formed by these relationships. I loved this part of the novel. This would be a great read for book groups as there are a vast number of topics that can be discussed. I skimmed the parts about Piper's illness and cut to the other parts of the story and those parts were most definately worth reading. I own the Hungry Season by T. Greenwood and am looking forward to reading her take on this family crisis.
    • 4/5
      Piper Kincaid is age thirty when she is diagnosed with cancer. Her friend Becca, came to help take care of her. However, weak from the effects of the disease, Piper decides to end her chemotherapy.Piper's mother left her when Piper was age fourteen. For a while Piper's father looked for his wife but then found someone new and moved in with her.Piper keeps up her spirits and hopes as a teenager. At age fourteen she is noticed by one of her teachers and forms a relationship with him.This is a well written story that deals with dispair, hope and lost goals. Piper is an excellent character who makes the reader sympathise with her and say a prayer that things will turn out well.
    • 4/5
      Piper Kincaid, the narrator in T. Greenwood’s Undressing the Moon, is a thirty-year-old woman dying of cancer. The book moves between her present illness and memories of the past - the year she turned fourteen and her world turned upside down. Set in rural Vermont, the story gives us floating glimpses into Piper’s family life: her protective older brother, her underemployed, difficult father, and her mother, an artist who creates exquisite stained glass windows out of shards of broken glass. In this coming of age story, Piper’s mother and father both leave her when she is a young teen. She longs for comfort and stability in her life. Piper stumbles through bullying at school and turns to sex with an older man to replace her many losses. As an adult, Piper tries to make sense of those years, and to ease her conscience of the burdens of her own deceit. The story unfolds in lyrical vignettes; the metaphor of broken shards of colored glass is often used to symbolize Piper’s life.“My mother taught me how to find grace in wreckage. She taught me not how to reassemble, but how to rearrange. The stained-glass pictures she made were certain evidence that things can be broken and put back together, and that the mended thing will be more beautiful than the original. That true beauty is in the cracks, in the places where the pieces have once been shattered and then mended.”There are discussion questions included at the end of the book. This is a book that would surely lend itself to book club discussions.