![]() ![]() ![]() Malcolm is very good-looking, “beautiful, still” - “the kind of man who’d get better with each passing year” - and Jess is attractive and endlessly intelligent she went to law school and works in the city. The Gephardts are a certain type of couple, “the prom king and queen,” Jess’s friend tells her. Malcolm mans his slowly failing bar, the Half Moon, in their hometown, Gillam, unable and unwilling to give up on his dream, and Jess has left him to go live temporarily with a friend in nearby New York City. When we meet Malcolm and Jess Gephardt, their marriage is in a sludgy stage of dissolution, a casualty of hasty decisions, imprudent judgments and exhaustion. The experience of reading Mary Beth Keane’s absorbing new novel, “The Half Moon,” feels - pleasantly - like breathing, or maybe just living. ![]()
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