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Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power.
Patty Taylor can handle anything. So what if the guys in her band dismiss her as just a pretty face, hired by their manager to make them more popular? She's already survived a bad childhood, a destructive teenage relationship, homelessness, and working twelve-hour shifts washing dishes. Traveling with the band gives her a way to provide for Willie, the two-year-old son she adores.
But on a hot summer day in Kentucky, when Willie's father shows up outside her hotel room, newly paroled from prison and intent on having her and his son back, Patty begins a journey that will change her from a girl who can put up with anything to a woman with a voice that can bring the house down. Shout Down the Moon is about following dreams and overcoming obstacles, about finding your voice and becoming the hero of your own life. In Patty Taylor, Lisa Tucker has created an unlikely heroine, a gutsy girl with a wry sense of humor, whose life will depend on having the courage to trust in her big talent and even bigger heart.
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By L. Phipps (CA)
I think Lisa Tucker did a great job with the book and made it very easy to read. It took a troubled girl with a bad upbringing to come to terms what really matters in life, her child. I guess it was just the seedy lifestyle she lived as well as her Ex-Husband that I did not love. The book is well written and will keep you reading it just wasn't one of my favorites.
By Fuzzy Lizard (Georgia, USA)
Shout at the Moon was a nice, easy read. It had just enough to keep me reading to the end.
The ending was too much over the top drama.
The book wasn't horrible, but not one I would recommend.
By D. West (Boise, Idaho United States)
Lisa Tucker is a new voice but one that I will read again and again. For, indeed, she has found her voice and its in writing novels with emotionally charged dysfunctional families who are so well drawn that you might even know them. There is great depth in all of the characters, even the minor ones. The plot is a new and refreshing twist and allows those who may have grown up in a "normal" family to feel what it's like not to have had the support of people who loved you unconditionally.
Yes, Patty Taylor, the protagonist, can handle anything and she handles quite a bit in this novel. The reader will root for her because she has overcome so much, and she doesn't even know her own strength until her small son, Willie, is threatened. That's what makes Patty so likable, she's genuine and she doesn't always believe in herself because in the past no one believed in her. She's had to make her own way in the world. Something most of us can't relate to but can feel it through the pages of this novel.
But watch Patty pull out all the stops to bring this well written novel to its climatic ending. Starting with a Mother who psychologically abused her she goes with a man who emotionally and eventually physically abused her. But, Patty doesn't need our sympathy, she can handle herself and having a child to look after really brings Patty to the point where she achieves her greatest goals--a stable loving life. Because she grew up in a dysfunctional environment, she mistook Rick's attention and control for love. Easy to see how this could happen. But as Patty matures, she continues to put up with band members who seem to hate her (because it supplies a means to feed and clothe her son). She also begins to blossom into a woman who speaks her mind and finds someone whom she can relate to and who treats her well. Although Patty started on the fringes of society as we normally define it, she ultimately redefines what "stable" is for her. Based on what she's had to put up with in life, I can only say, she's an exemplary human being--one who I would like to have as a friend. Can't wait to read another Lisa Tucker novel.
By Erin Brooks (London)
"Talented author Lisa Tucker brings the story of Patty, a single mother raising a young child on the road. After her first love and father of her child was sent away to prison, Patty tries to rebuild her life working as a singer in a band, and raise her young son. Tucker's words are true, spot on and never patronizing as she takes us through Patty's struggles with her alcoholic mother, difficult band members, possessive ex-lover while trying to build a life for herself. Patty comes across as a true and honest heroine, who tries hard to be and do the best she can while struggling with doubts, feelings and responsibilities.
I highly recommend this book."
By Sherriblu (Big Lake, Minn)
Shout down the Moon is a sad but poignant book.The writing is superb and it is empowering to watch the heroine evolve into her own woman.Explosive ending too...
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