Eliana Ramage

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

Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence, to effortless jumps through time and space – I loved it all.

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 book about a Cherokee Nation woman who, over several decades, brings herself to reckon with the true price of her at-any-cost ambition to become an astronaut; and 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

A story of decisions; right, wrong and everything in between, To the Moon and Back explores love and ambition and all its complicated messiness. 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

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

A soaring masterpiece that mixes the terror, care, betrayal, and death-defying love of family with deliciously abject lesbian drama and the beautifully self-destructive doggedness of possessing a singular dream. Every character in this novel will stay with you forever. I love this book.

Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman

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

To The Moon and Back simply soars. Eliana Ramage has given us 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

This author is as ambitious as her protagonist: there are three novels worth of material here, all good. The moon or bust!

'A singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel . . . Eliana Ramage is a dynamite writer' Claire Lombardo, 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, author of The Ministry of Time 
 
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 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. 
 
'Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence, to effortless jumps through time and space – I loved it all' Kiley Reid, author of Such A Fun Age

Eliana Ramage

Praise for To the Moon and Back

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.

Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence, to effortless jumps through time and space – I loved it all.

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 book about a Cherokee Nation woman who, ov ...

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.

Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence, to effortless jumps through time and space – I loved it all.

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 book about a Cherokee Nation woman who, ov ...

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.

Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence, to effortless jumps through time and space – I loved it all.

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 book about a Cherokee Nation woman who, ov ...

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