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To the Moon and Back
- Author
- Eliana Ramage
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2025
- Run Time
- 14 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The astounding and expansive coming-of-age novel about a young woman whose quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most.
A LITHUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025
Steph Harper is on the run.
When she was five, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong.
But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing interfere with her dream to become an astronaut, and ultimately, to go to the moon.
In Steph’s certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with the three women who know and love her most dearly: her younger sister Kayla, an artist whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; her college girlfriend Della, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her family as a young girl through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and her mother Hannah, who has held up her family’s history as a beacon of inspiration to her kids, all the while keeping the truth about her own past a secret.
Told through these women’s interwoven lives, and spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive coming-of-age 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 one woman will go to find a little space for herself.
‘Will break your heart and take you to the stars. I loved it’ Kiley Reid, bestselling author of Such a Fun Age
A singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel, one I wanted to devour and savour at once’ Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HAd
‘A powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family’ Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time
©2025 Eliana Ramage (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel... Eliana Ramage is a dynamite writer.
Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was
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Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars.
Kiley Reid, author of Such A Fun Age
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Bittersweet, thrillingly perceptive, multi-threaded, enormously funny... a powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family.
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time
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Eliana Ramage is a formidable talent, and writes with so much heart and hope: I loved it.
Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
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With characters so perfectly rendered that you’ll want to hug them or give them a shake, Eliana Ramage explores what it means to belong in this immersive and exciting debut.
Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers
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Passionate and compulsively readable... a stellar debut.
Margot Livesey, author of The Road to Belhaven
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A soaring masterpiece... Every character in this novel will stay with you forever.
Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman
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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
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A brilliant, faceted, warm-hearted novel, with characters to love and truly root for, and pages that seem to turn themselves.
Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of the National Book Award Finalist All This Could Be Different
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This author is as ambitious as her protagonist: there are three novels worth of material here, all good. The moon or bust!
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Details
- Author
- Eliana Ramage
- Narrator
- Nathalie Standingcloud, Kamali Minter, Tanis Parenteau
- Duration
- 14 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529975505
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The astounding and expansive coming-of-age novel about a young woman whose quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most.A LITHUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025Steph Harper is on the run.When she was five, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong.But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing interfere with her dream to become an astronaut, and ultimately, to go to the moon.In Steph’s certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with the three women who know and love her most dearly: her younger sister Kayla, an artist whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; her college girlfriend Della, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her family as a young girl through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and her mother Hannah, who has held up her family’s history as a beacon of inspiration to her kids, all the while keeping the truth about her own past a secret.Told through these women’s interwoven lives, and spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive coming-of-age 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 one woman will go to find a little space for herself.‘Will break your heart and take you to the stars. I loved it’ Kiley Reid, bestselling author of Such a Fun AgeA singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel, one I wanted to devour and savour at once’ Claire Lombardo, bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HAd‘A powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family’ Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time©2025 Eliana Ramage (P)2025 Penguin Audio
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