The Moon Knows All The Secrets Of The World

From the author of the poetry collections A Forever Kind of Dream and Alive in the Memory of Stars, and the acclaimed short story collection A Backpack Filled with Sunsets, The Moon Knows All the Secrets of the World is Ifeanyi Ogbo’s most ambitious work of fiction yet.

Across stories inspired by the phases of the moon, ordinary lives brush against impossible mysteries. A daughter becomes convinced her late father has been reborn in a distant town and embarks on a journey that reshapes everything she believes about love and loss. A dying president volunteers for a consciousness experiment that promises to keep him ruling long after death. A young boy cannot escape the feeling that the moon is recording every second of his life.

Blending slice-of-life, magical realism, psychological horror, speculative fiction, and quiet literary wonder, these stories move through the waxing and waning of hope, fear, memory, identity, and longing. Like the moon itself, they reveal that darkness is never empty.