Oskaloosa Moon

OSKALOOSA MOON recaptures beauty, pain and adolescent struggles in the mid-American farm village of Oskaloosa, Iowa. In the spirit of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Forrest Gump", OSKALOOSA MOON reveals the adventures of an outcast boy who was unwilling to be invisible.

OSKALOOSA MOON recaptures beauty, pain and adolescent struggles in a mid-American farm village. Fender skirts, corn fields, a shocking new music called Rock and Roll, white bread and Velveeta, and older kids 'making out' punctuate the coming of age for the young boy they call "Moon". He's illegitimate. Disfigured. And Oskaloosa's civic leaders are embarrassed by his presence. Surviving bullies, making and losing friends, stumbling between jobs, and traversing the country in early adulthood, Moon eventually leaves town, gets educated and finally scratches out his own path. In the spirit of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Forrest Gump", OSKALOOSA MOON reveals the adventures of an outcast boy who was unwilling to be invisible.

Gary Sutton was born in Montezuma, Iowa. He grew up in Sac City, Oskaloosa, Eagle Grove, Iowa Falls, Britt, Ames and Marshalltown. Gary met Nancy, a big city girl from Des Moines, in 1961 at Iowa State. They reside in La Jolla, California.