Walking on the Moon

The day before I joined the circus I did something perhaps even more out of character. I broke the windshield of two Italian boys who were following me. I was forty-one years old, a housewife and mother of two. I was on my second honeymoon - Barbara Wilson's characters are full of such reversals and surprises, and her stories breathe the salt wind of change. Fourteen-year-old Rhonda is caught holding hands with Miss Venezuela during a Miss Universe beauty contest; two women discover an unexpected ally while watching 'The Hulk' on TV; a teenager learns to fix a leaky roof and reassesses the merits of practicality; and Elizabeth, revisiting Germany after twelve years and sifting through the memories of adolescent anxiety, painfully explores the meaning of loved women.


Genre: General Fiction