In July 2020, I returned to my hometown of Harbin after six years away. At the age of 24, the trajectory of my life came to a sudden halt, and I began to reflect on how I had been shaped by the currents of life. “New Moon” is the name my mother gave herself, derived from the beauty she gazed upon amidst pain and chaos. It guides me to look back at the 1990s, the decade of my birth, and examine the eternal entanglement between the beauty of aspiration and the harsh reality.
In July 2020, I returned to my hometown of Harbin after six years away. At the age of 24, the trajectory of my life came to a sudden halt, and I began to reflect on how I had been shaped by the currents of life. “New Moon” is the name my mother gave herself, derived from the beauty she gazed upon amidst pain and chaos. It guides me to look back at the 1990s, the decade of my birth, and examine the eternal entanglement between the beauty of aspiration and the harsh reality.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
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The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.