Review
Kerri Schlottman sets the vibe from page one in Daytime Moon. The lyrical writing style might take a bit to get used to, but we as readers get the sense of the mysterious journey the characters will face right away.
Isa’s journey is understandable if you are or know someone who has wandered a bit in life, maybe avoiding something or trying to find something. The book is such a profound and heartfelt human story that I couldn’t help but root for Isa, Cole, and the family they find along the way.
Readers beware – though heartfelt, this story is also heartbreaking. The author puts our girl through it. But maybe its her way to show how grief and loss can lead to growth in more ways than we expect.
Kerri Schlottman joins the Cantina Book Club Podcast to talk about character journeys and plans for the future. Keep an ear out for the episode and preorder Daytime Moon, available May 12.
Book
Isa has a gift. Premonitions, intuitive insight, a knack for tarot. But she is adrift.
Years ago, she ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop, she’s convinced that it’s time to go home. Back in the California desert, Isa is swept up in her former life of late-night drag races by the Salton Sea, beers with the locals, and haunting reminders of the twin sister she lost and the mother she never got to meet.
When Dane, the man who raised them, becomes terminally ill, Isa is forced to confront everything she ran away from. In a posthumous letter, his revelations ignite her fearless internal drive. Traveling up and down California highways, through desert and forest, roaring coastline and border towns, Isa will follow the signs so delicately woven into the fabric of her life – a name, a constellation, a painting, a gleam of recognition on the water’s surface. If she can piece them together, she just might reunite the shattered remains of her beloved family.
Artfully narrated, Schlottman’s novel is an unforgettable journey through hidden stories, the depths of women’s secrets, the shimmering fluidity of memory, and the magic of transmutation.
