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If you guessed Karin Zirk, then you are correct!

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I am thrilled and honored to be chosen. I’ll be talking about my recently published book, Falling From The Moon, and Plume subscribers will get to read one of the cut chapters from the novel.

A number of books have been written about the Rainbow Gathering either directly or indirectly. The most recent (yes even newer than my book, Falling From The Moon) is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia.  Not sure I’m fond of the title because the book’s author was not murdered as were the other two named in this book, which doesn’t really make her the “third.”   And the friends that started on the journey with Nancy and Vicki was not murdered either.

On June 25, 1980, Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian were murdered in West Virginia en route to the 1980 Rainbow Gathering.

That being said, my ex and some of my friends were involved in bringing some level of justice to the murderer/s depending on what you believe.  I’m not sure if Emma Copley Eisenberg interviewed many of the original rainbow gathering attendees who investigated the tragic deaths of Nancy and Vicki among others. While I realize this story is not about the rainbow gathering per se, this is our history and our journey.

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Falling From the Moon is the most authentic counterculture novel since Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Her story of two women with different quests colliding at a counterculture gathering explores today’s alternative values in a setting that has never before been written about in such an up close and personal novel. It’s a page-turner whose waves of ideas will leave you pondering our social values for a long time to come.

Garrick Beck, True Stories: Tales From the Generation of a New World Culture

A search for a lost parent; a journey through a world that is close to many of us but seen by few; a bonding of women through the difficult circumstances of life. All of it moving along to the beat of a thousand drums offered up into the night sky. Falling From the Moon is a moving story told with compassion, at times a mystery in the woods and at others a heartbreaking family drama that takes place within the larger “family” of all humanity, as expressed by those who gather in peace to work toward a better way of loving one another. Zirk leads us by the hand to parts unknown, but by the end we are indebted to her as an initiate is to their first drum circle.

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Chris Boyd, Producer, Director, Writer, The First Padres, Last Night in Edinburgh.

Learn more about Boyd’s projects at the Independent Movie Database website.

Karin Zirk’s new first novel, Falling From the Moon, kept me engaged from first to last page. She poetically explores two characters, Lauren and Sapphire, when they both attend a Gathering in Plumas National Forest in California, a mini-Woodstock, for two weeks. There both wrestle with their own dark night of the soul and learn in the process the liberating joy of self-forgiveness.  Both deeply travel the mythic path of the heroine’s journey that draws into their sufferings a host of fascinating characters to both help and hinder their destiny. I cannot wait for Karin’s second novel.

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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Mythological Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute Author of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story and The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh.

I fell in love with FALLING FROM THE MOON. Karin Zirk’s novel has everything I want in a good read: compelling characters, an exotic setting, a story that keeps me turning pages and writing that bids me linger to savor the language. Set against the Gathering for Peace and Healing of the Planet in beautiful Plumas National Forest, this timely book reminds us of our need for environmental consciousness, and that love for one another and peace for the world are still ideals to strive for.

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Judy Reeves, Wild Women, Wild Voices