Don't the Moon Look Lonesome Author:Stanley Crouch Don't the Moon Look Lonesome is a staggering achievement, an unprecedented American epic that brilliantly explores the fault lines of race, ethnicity, sex, and class in our society -- as dramatized by a five-year, interracial romance. — Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carl... more »a deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her life), scenes from Carla's past play out against the present, and we begin to appreciate the astonishing arc of her life.
From South Dakota to Chicago, from New York City to Houston, from crack houses to art shows, churches to jazz clubs, open plains to unfettered city streets, Carla relentlessly pursues her artistic vision and authority as each of her love affairs reveals who and what she is -- an authentically complex heroine unlike any in our national literature.« less