Synopses & Reviews
A single mother and her daughter are on the run. The daughter narrates the story of their self-described ?Moon Unit? escaping from an unknown danger, and facts seep into the na?ve perspective on storytelling through the accounts of minor characters along the way, such as hotel clerks and pool attendants. Through this gradual reveal, we learn the mother's true fears, and the cause of this codependence that has sent them traveling around the world and finding nowhere safe to land.
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Running from a hazy past, mother and daughter tread lightly, checking in and out of hotel rooms, leaving all luggage and collected mementos behind when the mother knows they must run again. They make friends with no one and enemies with some. They are singular -- a "Moon Unit." Hotel workers place bets on whether the strange chain-smoking lady stole that beautiful girl away from her real mother, but to the Moon Unit the hotel people don't matter. From award-winning novelist Perihan Magden, Escape is the fast-paced story of fear and flight, and a mother and daughter testing the depths of their devotion. "A heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world." - Bookreporter
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"There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up."
Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They've been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things weighing them down. The mother and daughter are singular, a "Moon Unit," revolving so far away that no one can touch them. They form attachments to no one, not the pool boy who watches the daughter swim for hours, nor the girl at the front desk who counts the moments she sees the daughter as little good luck charms for her day. They are bound together with a secret language, the beautiful girl loved solely by her mother, who will never ever ever leave her side.
Prize-winning Turkish novelist and journalist Perihan Magden delivers a heartbreaking meditation on the intense and sometimes isolated love between a mother and daughter against the world.