{"id":152892,"date":"2025-10-23T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152892"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:35:31","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-and-square-books-present-eliana-ramage-for-to-the-moon-and-back-thursday-october-23-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-and-square-books-present-eliana-ramage-for-to-the-moon-and-back-thursday-october-23-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour and Square Books present Eliana Ramage for “To the Moon and Back” Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 6 pm at The Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Square Books<\/strong> presents Eliana Ramage<\/strong> for To the Moon and Back, <\/em>a tour de force debut about\u00a0 ambition, belonging, and family in which one young woman\u2019s relentless quest to become the first\u00a0Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the book <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My mother took my sister and me, and she drove through the night to a place\u00a0she felt a claim to, a place on earth she thought we might be safe. I stopped\u00a0asking questions. I picked little glass pieces from my sister\u2019s hair. I watched\u00a0the moon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive\u00a0husband\u2014with Steph and her younger sister in tow\u2014to Cherokee Nation,\u00a0where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights\u00a0as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing\u00a0get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she\u00a0knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the\u00a0moon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back <\/em>is an astounding and  expansive 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 to which one woman will go to find space for  herself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eliana Ramage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop. She has received residencies  and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Vermont  Studio Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives in Nashville with her family. To the Moon and  Back <\/em>is her first novel.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the Moon and Back\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
By Eliana Ramage\u00a0\u00a0
$30\u00a0\u00a0
Publisher: Avid Reader Press\/ Simon & Schuster\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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