How to Live Off the Grid... on Moon: A Memoir of Extremely Poor Planning

The brochure promised serenity. It did not mention the dust. After deciding his life on Earth needs a dramatic change, one wildly unprepared man buys a parcel of land on the Moon from a suspiciously glossy real-estate website. Six weeks later, he arrives at Parcel 14-B with the wrong clothes, one wrench, a cracked habitat, and the confidence of a man who has not read the manual. The Moon does not welcome him. His recycler clogs. His air is subscription-based. His lettuce tastes like damp sandpaper. His neighbor keeps hitting golf balls at his dome. And yet, somewhere between the disasters, the two-week nights, the emergency repairs, and a jar of ice named Gerald, he discovers something he never expected to find in the most isolated place imaginable: community. How to Live Off the Grid... on the Moon is a comic, heartfelt story about survival, spectacularly poor planning, and the strange miracle of finding home where no reasonable person would ever look.