Pack Up the Moon
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Funny, heartbreaking and uplifting, New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins delivers an unforgettable romance about how love can transcend even the greatest obstacles.
They used to joke about her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need one when she was gone.
Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job as a scientist, his small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he’s always suffered from, Josh has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life. But his beloved wife Lauren had a plan to keep him moving forward, to lead him on a journey through grief, anger, and denial—twelve letters.
Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find joy again. From his first outing as a widower to buy groceries to finding a new best friend while sobbing in a clothing store, Joshua’s grief makes room for him to learn Lauren’s most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn’t follow a straight line.
Emotional, heartwarming, and perfect for book clubs, TikTok sensation Pack Up the Moon illuminates how love always finds a way to carry bring us joy, even when we least expect it.
ASIN : B08HY2L37G
Publisher : Berkley
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : June 8, 2021
Language : English
File size : 4.4 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 463 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0451489494
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #38,230 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #406 in Contemporary Women Fiction #1,048 in Contemporary Women’s Fiction #2,076 in Women’s Romance Fiction
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BashfulBookworm –
Heart Wrenching and Beautiful Love Story
Pack up the Moon by Kristan Higgins is probably the most beautiful love story I’ve ever read. The story is beautifully written and is also heart-wrenching, heartwarming, and even hilarious in places. Reading this book, I’ve used up almost all my emotions, and after the end, I’m exhausted, content, and uplifted.Josh and Lauren were happily married for only a year when her diagnosis of a terminal illness drastically changes their life, but not their love for each other. After Lauren passes away, her best friend Sarah gives Josh a letter from Lauren every month for a year to help him move forward in his life. These letters give Josh a task, outside of his comfort zone, to help him move on.This book is all about the love shared by Josh and Lauren, although we know from the start that Lauren has passed, the window into their love story is so overwhelming, intense, and beautiful, this story will just rip out your heart, and twist it until you have nothing left. This intense story is littered with Ms. Higgins’s special brand of humor, lightening up the intensity and giving the book a balance that few writers can achieve.I read through this book, with a box of tissues nearby, without stopping as the story gripped me and kept me involved until the very end. This is a story about grief, and moving on, and told in such a way that you feel for each character and go through the pain, and healing with them. It was a window into how this lovely couple dealt with the news of a terminal illness, and how they learned to give each other the strength to deal with their new life, and the life after the death of one half of this loving couple.I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a great love story.
jveazey –
Beautiful love story!
This is the best book I have read so far this year! I was seriously cry at the end. This book has everything in it that one could want in a love story. And even the ending is not what you think it will be. A tragically beautiful story written by one of my very favorite authors. Kristan Higgins knows how to grab you in the first chapter and keep you glued to the very last page of her novels. She never bores you with the same old story but different names scenario. Nope. With each new book we get a beautiful story filled with love, life and even humor when you sometimes least expect it. (You know one of those moments when you laugh cry)! Yep those are in there to.This book is a beautiful story about Lauren and Joshua. We learn to love them both right at the beginning. We also learn of the tragedy that has struck this young married couple. Lauren has a terminal illness called IPF. Throughout this book you can’t help but have hope, and wish for better things for these two and their dear family and friends. We have hope and I think Kristan helps us to have courage for them all. What she is able to do is weave the most beautiful love story out of this tragedy.I can’t say enough about the author and her book. This book was written during the pandemic if I’m not mistaken, and it certainly made her creative juices flow. Kristan thank you for writing such a beautiful love story for us to read and enjoy over and over again! As for me I am a true fan and follower of this beautiful lady. I have had the pleasure of meeting her twice in person and getting my books signed by her. I am happy to say I purchased not only a physical copy of this book, but the audible version as well. I listened to the audible version and totally enjoyed Xe Sands and Dion Graham narrating. They were awesome and entertaining.What can I say, grab a copy of this book and curl up with it for a weekend! You won’t be disappointed. The Best love story Ever!!
Susan M. Baumann –
Drenched in Emotion
Higgins writes beautifully, and this book is testament to her gifts. The story is drenched in emotion. Josh and Lauren are both young, attractive, successful and wildly in love.Happily married for three years, they excitedly map out their future and dream of the family they’ll have one day. But as often happens, fate intervenes, and Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal lung disease at only 28 years-old. The couple reels with the sudden shock, staggering under the weight of their impending loss, watching their golden life suddenly implode. Yet, despite the dire circumstances, they still manage to find the magic in ordinary days, keenly aware that they are fortunate to have found each other, in spite of everything. In the hands of a less-skilled writer, the story could have been maudlin, shallow and trite, but Higgins transcends those traps, creating instead, a much deeper narrative that dares to mine the stark reality of loss. Higgins moves carefully through the raw, wrenching terrain with a deft touch and rarely makes a misstep. If there are some moments of overwrought and grand, profuse declarations of love that seem a bit cinematic, then chalk it up to the earnest certainty of youth. When the story works, it is largely because of Josh and his fierce devotion to Lauren. As a character, he is just so endearing. He has vulnerability and intelligence, which are a refreshing antidote to the usual, tired tropes for male protagonists created by other authors. I enjoyed seeing Josh grow and thrive in his first year as a widower. In order to help him cope, Lauren has left him a series of letters and tasks, one for each month, designed to gradually nudge him toward happiness again. The results are heart-tugging and often comical. Higgins has penned a big, encompassing tale that takes its time with grief. There is ample joy, heartbreak and renewal found within its pages. A sad, but luminous journey worth taking.
Ian –
This book will break your heart unless you’re a rock, I loved this book and yes it did make me cry. I didn’t want this book to end and even after 3 days of finishing it I feel like reading it again, so well written I felt I was there in the hospital, at the finality. I can’t say more than that without giving the story away.
Diane Schepers –
This book is unexpected in its sequence of events and its description of the characters. The reader gets to know them very well.Kristan Higgins is one of my favourite writers though not all of her books are 5 stars, definitely 4 or 4.5.This one is by far one of the very best. It’s not like any other book written by Kristan Higgins. You will be suprised in many different ways.
Cecilia –
Al inicio no me gustó y lo iba a dejar, le di una oportunidad y me gustó mucho. Es fácil de leer, la historia de alguien con IPF es increíble y dolorosa, logré conectar con varios pasajes en el libro. No sabes que va a pasar, nada predecible! Por eso me encantó! Un libro diferente! Bastante recomendable e interesante
P Amsden –
A beautiful and heartbreaking book of love, loss and finding love againThe characters are wonderful and beautifully written with the love between Lauren and Josh so wonderful and life affirming even as they discover she has a life ending condition. And it continues in the letters she writes him once a month after her death.
Anshul and sanshia –
THIS IS A 6 STAR BOOK😭And all I have done is crying while reading this one