Brad Gooch

"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."

-- Booklist

 

"Resonant...His poetic descriptions of parenting are thoughtful, memorable, and will highly resonate with readers who have raised children. Good writes with humanity and pride, admitting that the most surprising revelaton of his joirney 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.

--Kirkus 

 

"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."

--Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon 

 

"In an age of frayed connections, Good Morning Moon 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 acult realities impose themselves on us, whether we're ready or not. Beautifully written and filled with nuggets of wisdom, Good Morning Moon is hard to put down and even harder to forget."

--Daphne Merkin, author of 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love: A Novel and This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

 

"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, Good Morning Moon will change you."

--Honor Moore, author of A Termination

 

"Good Morning Moon 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."

--Andre Bishop, former producing artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater