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“The Brightest Moon of the Century” follows Minnesotan Edward Meopian’s complex and eventful life, opening with the protagonist as a confused and grief-stricken eighth-grader, shortly after the untimely death of his young mother. Readers trail Edward through his formative high school and college years, complete with first kisses, love, and sex. Each chapter of the novel embraces a new step, a new challenge in Edward’s life, and ends during the brightest moon of the century, with a successful, adult Edward standing beneath.

Author Christopher Meeks takes unexpected turns while scripting the life of Edward, and makes interesting use of several locales, including university in Colorado, a trailer park in Alabama, and film school in Los Angeles, Edward’s adopted city. His time in Alabama is a highlight of the novel, introducing a wild array of characters, outrageous situations, and ultimate self-discovery.

This is a moving novel, especially when focused on the initially labored relationship between Edward and his father. A seeming totalitarian when first introduced, Edward’s father is only a grieving widower, struggling to make sense of a world in which he is suddenly raising a pubescent son alone. Though theirs is a rocky relationship utilized as an introduction to the novel, the two later form an affectionate relationship, obviously deep with mutual respect and love. Though I missed their dynamic in the second half of the book, Edward grew up and moved on, becoming a father himself.

Like his short stories collections before it, “The Brightest Moon of the Century” proves Christopher Meeks to be a candid, inventive author, capable of capturing the nature of man and exposing it in the most charming of fashions.

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