When you hold please dont come back from the moon in your hands you know youre holding something different the premise alone has the ability to off put nearly all who read it but what dean bakopoulos does with it is incredible. Please dont come back from the moon should be read as a tribute to the past generation of working class american men bookmarks magazine during the summer of 1991 when times were tough the men of blue collar maple rock outside detroit disappeared one by one with one of them leaving a note saying he was going to the moon. Dean bakopoulos tells us that the title of his debut novel please dont come back from the moon comes from a jazz composition by charles mingus but i was immediately reminded of another song from the 1960s here is the opening verse from it streets full of people all alone roads full of houses never home a church full of singing out . Please dont come back from the moon dean bakopoulos published by mariner books isbn 10 good reprint former library book shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside seller inventory grp101974157 more information about this seller contact this seller 3 please dont come back from the moon bakopoulos dean published by houghton mifflin harcourt . Read by dean bakopoulos please dont come back from the moon reprint uploaded by rex stout please dont come back from the moon should be read as a tribute to the past generation of working class american men bookmarks magazine during the summer of 1991 when times were tough the men of blue collar maple rock outside