Graffiti Moon / Catherine Crowley / 259 pages / August Challenge - Australia

Lucy wants to meet Shadow.  He is a graffiti artist who paints with The Poet who accompanies his illegal drawings with poetry.  Unbeknownst to Lucy, she has not only met Shadow, she has broken his nose - on their first and only date.  She has built an impression of Shadow making him a legend in her own mind, and fails to reconcile Ed, a drop out with hidden reading difficulties who worked in a local paint store so that his mom can go to nursing school, with his true identity.  Lucy is  an apprentice glass blower and their mutual interest in art gives common ground to explore a relationship beyond friendship.