02960cam a2200481 i 4500 2579908334 TxAuBib 20251002120000.0 250307s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025933761 9781668065853 $30.00 1668065851 $30.00 TxAuBib rda Ramage, Eliana, author. To the moon and back / Eliana Ramage. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, 2025. v, 438 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20251007. Astronauts Fiction. Indians of North America Fiction. Women astronauts Fiction. Education Aims and objectives Fiction. Reese's Book Club 2025. Reese's Book Club. Indigenous women Fiction. Indigenous peoples North America Fiction. Indigenous peoples Fiction. LGBTQ+ Lesbian Fiction. LGBTQ+. LGBTQ+. Fiction. Native Americans Fiction. Space Fiction. Space. Novels. Contemporary fiction. Queer fiction. BTCLS