To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage ISBN 9781668065877, 9781668065853, 1668065878, 1668065851, B0DV62KX1N instant download

To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage ISBN 9781668065877, 9781668065853, 1668065878, 1668065851, B0DV62KX1N instant download

One 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, & family.
My mother took my sister & me, & 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 five, her mother fled an abusive husband—with Steph & her younger sister 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 & academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, & ultimately, to go to the moon.
Spanning three decades & several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph’s turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted & intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, & 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; & 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 & generosity, & 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 & expansive