The Boys Who Danced With The Moon - by Mark Paul Oleksiw (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Boys Who Danced with the Moon is a coming of age tale about Kiran Wells, a shy music-loving 1980's teenager. Two eccentric classmates help Kiran find his identity until fate shuts off the volume. Twenty years later, Kiran receives two mysterious letters from his hometown. Is he ready to return and confront the tragedy that took place years ago<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>WINNER of 2018 RED RIBBON AWARD (The Wishing Shelf Book Awards)</strong></p><p>Can you ever escape the past? Kiran Wells, a mid-30's professional living on the West Coast, thought he was safe until an anonymous letter arrives from his hometown. Its only contents- an old newspaper clipping about a drowning twenty years earlier. Leaving career and friends behind, Kiran returns to the place of his youth to find the conjurer of his past.</p><p>Kiran is a quiet and shy teenager with a taste for alternative music growing up in a suburban northern town during the mid-80's. The arrival of two students, the confident and rebellious Marius and the naive, cloak-wearing Moony, awaken Kiran. On the eve of graduation, fate turns the volume off in Kiran's world and his memory fades to black.</p><p>Returning to his hometown, Kiran is forced to confront the demons that haunt him. His future depends on whatever hope he has left and the life or death decision he must ultimately make. Will he hear the music again?</p><p><strong>The Boys Who Danced with the Moon </strong>is a coming of age tale of friendship, youth, and love.</p><p>You can learn more about the novel and future works by Mark Paul Oleksiw at www.markoleksiw.com.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This skillfully crafted YA mystery novel revolves around a past event that continues to haunt its protagonist. Oleksiw offers a realistic portrait of a suburban town in the 1980s and of the ties that bind individuals to the place of their origins.</p><p>Oleksiw works in a clear, lyrical prose that effectively conveys the unfolding events, while kneading at the more elusive aspects of the story, as filtered through time, tightly held secrets, and memory.</p><p>Oleksiw deftly blends a coming-of-age story with elements of a mystery, resulting in an insightful and refreshing YA novel with crossover appeal to an older audience.</p><p>While the protagonist remains somewhat of an enigma throughout the novel, readers will come to know him through his relationships with other characters. The circumstances of the mystery will keep readers fully engaged, as will Kiran's quest to rediscover, or perhaps reclaim, his soul."<strong> -The Booklife Prize 2018</strong></p><p>"THE BOYS WHO DANCED WITH THE MOON is poignant, bittersweet, and rich with the joys and sorrows of adolescent friendships. The characters are by no means dull - cynical, playful, defiant Marius, dreamy, eccentric, frequently wise Moony, and Kiran himself, full to the brim of words and poetry and young love. This is not the book for a lover of rapid action - it starts slowly, and for the first few chapters, it's easy enough to wonder where it's going. But hang on - once Marius is introduced, and he and Kiran become fast friends, the tale gains energy and heart in spades.</p><p>The memories unfold themselves gradually and deliberately, but powerfully. The author deftly immerses readers in the intensity of adolescent emotion, seen through the rosily wistful haze of adult recollection, and these boys are easy to love. </p><p>THE BOYS WHO DANCED WITH THE MOON is a tender and poetic look at adolescent boyhood, and its currents will draw the reader along almost as powerfully as those of the river at its heart." -<em><strong>Catherine Langrehr for IndieReader</strong></em></p><br>
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