{"product_id":"good-morning-moon-a-snapshot-of-an-american-family","title":"Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gooch's sons, Walter and Glenn, are lovingly evoked . . . . Happiness is satisfying but can be narratively flat. \u003ci\u003eGood Morning Moon\u003c\/i\u003e avoids this problem with an unexpected swerve: Like countless twenty-first-century Americans, Gooch takes a DNA test and discovers that his family of origin is not what he thought it was. His discovery has implications beyond the personal, reminding us that even the most hyper-conventional, heteronormative families are far from straightforward. Perhaps every family is nontraditional in its own way.\" ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Resonant . . . His poetic descriptions of parenting are thoughtful, memorable, and will highly resonate with readers who have raised children. Gooch writes with humanity and pride, admitting that the most surprising revelation of his journey into parenting was the extreme happiness he and his spouse experienced in embracing the joys and pains of the process, the increasing acceptance and normalcy of gay childrearing, and reveling in the wonders of fatherhood. A nurturing and inspiring portrait of queer paternity and modern family.\" \u003ci\u003e⎯ \u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Poet, novelist, and biographer Gooch captures the joys and fears of queer parenthood in this intimate memoir. Parents of all backgrounds will see themselves in Gooch's elegant reflections on the transformative power of child-rearing. Refined prose and a tender heart make this a winner.\"\u003ci\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Quoting one of his biography subjects, the poet Rumi, Gooch is trying to 'hear the sunlight not yet turned into books or speech.' A writer of efficiency and beauty, he transmits that sunlight with the skill and experience of a writer wise enough to recognize it. All who are fascinated by the healing and hallucinatory nature of being with children--and of life itself--will connect to Gooch's moving memoir.\" ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Future generations--perhaps even current ones--who need to know how we evolved from a society in which queer people suffered the indignity of social exclusion and the slaughter days of AIDS will find in this book the narrative not only of how things changed, but also of the joys that transformation has wrought. At a time when human rights for the LGBTQ community are being thrown into question, this honest but celebratory book about late-stage happiness is a beacon of hope and discovery.\" --\u003cb\u003eAndrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If long ago you decided against having children or are presently at all ambivalent, this is your book. In a delectable narrative full of twists and turns, each character vividly charms, including the children who are its stars! No matter what kind of family you dreaded or dream of, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning Moon\u003c\/i\u003e will change you.\" ⎯ \u003cb\u003eHonor Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eA Termination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In an age of frayed connections, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome antidote--an utterly captivating account of the ties we choose to bind us. The book is both a tender, witty rumination on the experience of parenting and a profound reflection on the ways adult realities impose themselves on us, whether we're ready or not. Beautifully written and filled with nuggets of wisdom, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is hard to put down and even harder to forget.\" -- \u003cb\u003eDaphne Merkin, author of \u003ci\u003e22 Minutes of Unconditional Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood Morning Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is thoughtful and joyous, full of wonderful detail on becoming a parent, the feeling of family, as well as fascinating revelations Brad Gooch makes about his childhood family once he has one of his own. As a gay dad who adopted when I was fifty, it all meant so much to me and will surely touch and inspire countless other readers. I loved this book.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndré Bishop, former producing artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/20\/2026 (EAN 9780063466937, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780063466937, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2026 (EAN 9780063466937, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eGooch, Brad\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBrad Gooch\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, novelist, and biographer whose previous ten books include the bestselling \n\u003ci\u003eRadiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2025 Lambda Award for Biography, a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Critics Favorite Pick of the Year, and soon to be a television series from Andrew Haigh; \n\u003ci\u003e Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller; \n\u003ci\u003eCity Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara\u003c\/i\u003e; \n\u003ci\u003eGodtalk: Travels in Spiritual America\u003c\/i\u003e; and the memoir \n\u003ci\u003eSmash Cut\u003c\/i\u003e. 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