Half-Moon Scar

Allison Green's Half-Moon Scar is an edgy novel about three childhood friends who reunite as adults to discover and heal each others' emotional wounds.

Amy is a thirtysomething lesbian who escaped her small, Midwestern hometown of Willow Bay, Wisconsin, to pursue an academic career and establish a life with her lover. After years away from Willow Bay, she returns to visit the people she's left behind--only to discover that her old friends Gina and Gavin have learned to dissociate from their pasts in extreme ways that rival her own.

Amy's tendency toward self-mutilation parallels both Gavin's anorexia and Gina's moody detachment from life, and Amy soon begins to fear for Gavin's life while becoming more and more bewildered by Gina's behavior.

As past and present collide and the visit extends far beyond its intended length, as the reunion forces all three to examine the shame and guilt they experienced as gay adolescents.

Amy finds that she must reconcile the tense relationship with her family and her long-standing attraction to Gina, as well as her past romantic experimentation with Gavin. Together, Amy, Gina, and Gavin examine the scars--both emotional and physical, visible and invisible--that pervade their still-unresolved lives.

Author: Allison Green
Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions
Published: 10/19/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.95h x 4.98w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780312282530

About the Author

Allison Green teaches writing and women's studies at a community college in Washington State. Half-Moon Scar is her first novel.

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