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I got my first journal as a Christmas gift when I was five. It was hardbound, black leather with gold embellishments on the cover and along the paper edges. It was very fancy. The same books followed every year and they felt very important. I wanted the inside to match the outside.
And yet, even as a small girl, every time I stared down the page to draw and express myself, I felt I came up short against my father's music, handwriting, drawings. Still, I persevered, and just surrendered to how it felt to be swept away by the creative urging.
As time went on, I loosened the reins on my perfectionism and the comparing myself to the looming shadow of Frank Zappa. I had no choice. I did not think I had "it," in the way that he did, so I accepted the "it" I had. After this, I used my journals like secret best friends to which I could say anything. For a time, when I still lived at home and had no privacy, I'd write in code about my most private feelings. The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, celebrity-focused, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, undiagnosed mental illness ridden, non-communicative, shaming, workaholic, feral-feeling house. It was this confusing atmosphere that I processed in those journals, in stories that it has taken me long years to come back to despite never leaving them in my head.
When a writer takes on the task of writing their memoir, their interior life is turned inside out--for themselves, for their editor, and eventually, for the reader. For Moon Unit Zappa, processing a life so unique, so punctuated by the whims of creative genius, the tastes of popular culture, the calculus of celebrity and the nature of fractured love has at times been eviscerating, at others, illuminating. Yes, this is a book about growing up in the shadows of Frank Zappa, in the sexually free, wild world of 1970s Topanga Canyon. Yes, there are marquee names aplenty. And as we careen into the 1980s, the style and the music and the tone changes--but Moon remains the constant, trying to find herself in a very confusing, everchanging equation--that of her family.
It is Moon who figures out that equation, finally, with grace and humility. It is Moon's deep sense of humor and inner peace that keeps her grounded, and keeps this memoir pinned to the ground. Earth to Moon is a creative, colorful and wonderful lesson in growing into oneself.