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The Philadelphia Inquirer - April. 1, 2004 -- Book
Review 'Moon' sheds light on a life clouded by pain, moved by music
-- Shout Down the Moon -- By Lisa Tucker -- Downtown Press. 292
pp. $13 -- Reviewed by Rita Giordano -- Patty Taylor can put up with
anything. Or so she tells herself. A childhood of emotional abuse by
an alcoholic mother. A destructive relationship with a drug dealing
boyfriend. Homelessness, and giving birth to her son, her beloved
Willie, alone. Even now, working as a singer in a band that
plays small towns and gets put up in dump motels...
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People Magazine - April 12, 2004 -- Tucker’s
sophomore novel hooks you from the grim first line: “I know he’s
coming. His sentence was seven years, but after less than three, he’s
made parole.” Narrator Patty Taylor has escaped her abusive ex and is
attempting to rebuild her life, taking her young son, Willie, on the road
with her as she travels the Midwest signing in a band. But now Willie’s
father is free, and Patty knows it’s only a matter of time before he
finds them...
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Publishers Weekly -- December 22, 2003 -- SHOUT
DOWN THE MOON -- Lisa Tucker. Downtown, $13 paper (291p) ISBN
0-7434-6446-X -- Tucker's follow-up to her Book Sense bestseller,
The Song Reader, is even more commercially appealing thanks to a
ratcheted-up suspense angle that still allows for well-drawn,
emotionally nuanced characters. Once again, music is the motivating
factor for change in Tucker's world of jazz musicians singing the
blues. Patty Taylor is determined not to settle for dead-end
dishwashing jobs and life with her emotionally abusive, alcoholic
mother...
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