THE BLACK MOON is a novel about the fear of magic, the simple everyday magic of being. Is it our obsession for violence that blocks the poetry of our need for love? Why can't we simply inhale our existence and celebrate the gift of light into which we are born? Sam and Fanny struggle through a relationship which is scarred by their separate, fractured pasts. Fanny never knew her mother, and Sam's early life was almost ended by a racist Ku Klux...