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To the Moon and Back : A Novel by Eliana Ramage (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-101668065851
ISBN-139781668065853
eBay Product ID (ePID)3074797035
Product Key Features
Book TitleTo the Moon and Back : a Novel
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicNative American & Aboriginal, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year2025
GenreFiction
AuthorEliana Ramage
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews" To the Moon and Back is a singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel, one I wanted to devour and savor at once. Eliana Ramage is a dynamite writer--every sentence positively shimmers." --Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was "A novel that has the generosity to be many things--bittersweet, thrillingly perceptive, multi-threaded, enormously funny. To the Moon and Back is a wonderful reckoning with the true price of an at-any-cost ambition and a powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family." --Kaliane Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry of Time "To the Moon and Back is a passionate and compulsively readable novel. Dare I say, a stellar debut." --Margot Livesey, author of The Road to Belhaven "Eliana Ramage's To the Moon and Back is a captivating debut about family, queer identity, love, career and heritage. This novel has something for everyone." -- De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills and Decent People, "A novel that has the generosity to be many things--bittersweet, thrillingly perceptive, multi-threaded, enormously funny. To the Moon and Back is a wonderful reckoning with the true price of an at-any-cost ambition and a powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family." --Kaliane Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry of Time "To the Moon and Back is a passionate and compulsively readable novel. Dare I say, a stellar debut." --Margot Livesey, author of The Road to Belhaven "Eliana Ramage's To the Moon and Back is a captivating debut about family, queer identity, love, career and heritage. This novel has something for everyone." -- De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills and Decent People
SynopsisOne young woman's relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family. My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister's hair. I watched the moon. Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother, Hannah, fled an abusive husband--with Steph and her younger sister, Kayla, in tow--to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon. Spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph's turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph's college girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, Steph and Kayla's mother, who has held up her family's tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret. In Steph's certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking, at once betraying their love and generosity, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself.
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