Will break your heart and take you to the stars. I loved it. Kiley Reid

A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations. Reese Witherspoon

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Steph Harper was born running. Now she is reaching for the moon.

When Steph was five, her mother fled with Steph and her little sister to a small Cherokee community, searching for safety, home and a future.

Years later, Steph has one impossible ambition: to become the first Cherokee astronaut. To get there, she is willing to leave almost everything behind her past, her family, and the people who know her best.

But ambition has a gravity of its own. As Steph chases the stars, the women closest to her are pulled into their own reckonings: Kayla, her brilliant younger sister; Hannah, the mother guarding a buried family history; and Della, the girlfriend who challenges Steph s idea of escape.

Spanning decades, continents and one unforgettable family, To the Moon and Back is a sweeping literary family saga about queer love, Cherokee identity, mothers and daughters, sacrifice and the price of chasing a dream when home still has a hold on you.

A Reese s Book Club Pick for readers who love emotionally powerful book club fiction.

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