The Moon We
Cannot Share

by Sharif Lawrence Quiblier

A tender coming-of-age journey through faith, failure, and the search for a self that refuses to be found.

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Location Johannesburg, South Africa

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THE STORY

“At thirteen, Lionel knelt on a stone floor in a Cape Town church and felt something he would spend the next thirty years trying to find again.”

REFLECTIONS ON AN ACHE WE DON'T ALWAYS UNDERSTAND

A search for faith,
belonging and self.

At thirteen, Lionel prayed the only honest prayer he knew: Please. Exist. Something answered. Then it was gone.

This is the story of what comes after — because the soul remembers what the mind dismisses.

From Cape Town to the American Midwest, from France to Switzerland to England, Lionel spends thirty years chasing a warmth he felt once and cannot manufacture again. He studies theology. Walks away unfinished. A carpentry apprenticeship grounds him where theory failed. He is loved, with clarity, by people who eventually leave — not because he fails them, but because he is still listening for something none of them can answer. Each mind, he comes to understand, is an island: bodies touch, but souls remain apart.

The Moon We Cannot Share is a coming-of-age novella about spiritual longing and the cost of becoming yourself when you aren't sure the self exists yet. Beneath the Schaffhausen snow and the London rain, it asks one question without a clean answer: was the life he kept searching for something he lost — or something we were always moving toward.

A story about faith, longing, love — and the difficult journey of becoming yourself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sharif Lawrence
Quiblier

After years as a senior risk manager for Kindle Direct Publishing, Sharif decided it was finally time to publish a book of his own.

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Moon We Cannot Share marks his move from working within the world of publishing to becoming a published author himself.

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