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Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and hubby Tom retreat to an isolated community on the Dorset seacoast, hoping to find the solitude that allows them to handle their reduction and repair their foundering marriage. Walking on the beach one day, they unearth a human being skeleton. It really is a discovery which will plunge Minna into a puzzle which will ingest her for months to come. The remains are soon discovered as those of Private Lew Campbell, a black North american GI who, it seems, drowned throughout a wartime exercise in the area half a hundred years before. Growing ever more preoccupied with the dead soldier's fate, Minna befriends a melancholy older female, Felix, who resided in the community during the battle. As Minna coaxes Felix's story from her, it becomes clear that the old female is aware more about the dead GI than she at first let on. Playing with the Moon is an unforgettable book of recollection and reduction, about the legacy of battle, and the necessity to reconcile ourselves to our past in order to have with the present. Felix's final surprising confession allows her to come to terms with a meeting that has cast a shadow over her life, and helps Minna to begin to accept her own reduction.
