The Insatiable Moon

Paul writes – The Insatiable Moon is a wonderful novel written by Mike Riddell and published in 1997. Mike has, over a number of years, written the screenplay for the movie The Insatiable Moon which I do hope finds funding and does get made. It’s a NZ story, BUT in the same way that Whale Rider was, it is a universal story – one that will cross boundaries and speak to the deeper questions of what it means to be human and what it means to be community.

It is a beautiful story set on the margins amongst a group of people often ‘invisible’ to the many of us middle-class and upper-class, getting on with our lives. To the degree that these people remain invisible; to that degree we will struggle to find God…Insatiable Moon is a novel (and will be a movie) that opens us to the wonder of mystery and the mystery of humanity centered on Arthur, who just might be “the second son of God…”