New Moon

“This is a strong, deeply moving book. I can’t think of another example in which the details and particularities of childhood have been evoked so fully, with such painstaking care and precision.” * PAUL AUSTER, author of Moon Palace, Mr. Vertigo, and Smoke *
“Using the haunted lives which inhabited the famous Katskills resort as a backdrop, Richard Grossinger writes a brilliant novel about a young man’s passage into adulthood. New Moon is a departure for the Jewish-American novel as well—no longer obsessed with Old World issues and not finding solace in the illusion of an American Promised Land.” * ISHMAEL REED, author of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Japanese by Spring, and Shrovetide in Old New *
“New Moon is something new under the sun, a real psychoanalytic autobiography.” * PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews *
“A memoir of baseball, high school, and Jewish New York in the ’50s, New Moon is also a portrait of a defenseless consciousness uncovering itself and the world simultaneously. The spellbinding prose and terrifying intimacy of Richard Grossinger’s book puts it, for me, in the company of Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes and Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood. An unforgettable reading experience.” * JONATHAN LETHEM, author of Gun, with Occasional Music, Motherless Brooklyn, and Amnesia Moon *
“In this remarkably courageous and unsparing self-examination, Richard Grossinger explores the labyrinths of panic and fear that lay beneath the Paradise-like surface of a privileged childhood. Part magic, part myth, part dream, part prayer, New Moon is a liquid mirror that leads straight to the depths of the unconscious.” * MARY MACKEY, author of The Year the Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, Season of Shadows, and The *
“At once a memoir, an account of psychoanalysis, and a both savage and loving account of New York in the ’50s, New Moon is a work with many layers and a unique tone, reminiscent of Robert Musil’s A Man Without Qualities in its blend of analytical realism, melancholia, and acute psychoanalytic and philosophical penetration.” * ANDREW HARVEY, author of The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi and Radical Regeneration: Sacred *
“A strange and remarkable self-evaluation in the form of a novel—illuminating, tender, moving, evocative … any number of adjectives of praise would be appropriate.” * GEORGE PLIMPTON, author of Out of My League and Paper Lion *
“Since the days when I depended on the magazine Io to expand and verify a lot of what I was beginning to learn of the deep dark universe, I have found Richard Grossinger’s empirical analysis of American Culture unerring. New Moon, a memoir of Grossinger’s early life, starts out in the Land of Giants and emerges onto 5th Avenue, the mainstreet of Metropolis. In its observational acuity it is great anthropology—as a tale of growing it is strangely charming and funny and scary.” * EDWARD DORN, author of The North Atlantic Turbine and Some Business Recently Transacted in the White *

Richard Grossinger is the curator of Sacred Planet Books at Inner Traditions and the cofounder and former publisher of North Atlantic Books with his wife, Lindy Hough. He holds a PhD in ecological anthropology and has written over 40 books on alternative medicine, cosmology, embryology, and consciousness, including Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings; The Night Sky: Soul and Cosmos; and Bottoming Out the Universe. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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