When is love truly over?

Few of us can imagine an oblivion more all-consuming than love - and love lost. We like to believe in divine timing, but what happens when two hearts entwine before Fate is ready? Is this a missed chance? Or a taste of what is yet to blossom?

In these gently reflective, soul-searching vignettes, debut poet J. Duchak explores what it means to find your heart's desire - from golden afternoons filled with tender promises, to the gut punch when it slips through your fingers.

As it fearlessly disentangles love, longing, heartbreak, fantasies, delusions and the lies we tell ourselves to hold on just a little longer, The Awestruck and the Moonstruck also provides an uplifting testimony of unwavering hope in the face of loss.

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First edition comes out on August 11, 2024.