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Pack Up the Moon

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The TikTok sensation! Pack up the Moon is a heart-wrenching and beautiful story of love in all its forms.

Joshua Park never expected to be a widower at the age of thirty. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he's always suffered from, he has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life.
But Lauren, his wife, had a plan to keep him moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him, giving him a task for every month in the year after her death.
It's a journey that will take Joshua from his first outing as a widower to buy groceries... to an attempted dinner party that becomes a comic disaster... to finding a new best friend while weeping in the dressing room of a clothing store.
As his grief makes room for new friendships and experiences, Joshua learns Lauren's most valuable lesson: the path to happiness doesn't follow a straight line.
Funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always uplifting, this novel from bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life's greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.
Real readers have fallen in love with Pack up the Moon:

'I loved everything about this book!!!! It was so beautifully written' 5 star reader review
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I cried throughout the entirety of this book. So emotional and so well written' 5 star reader review
'This is the best book I have read so far this year!' 5 star reader review
'This book is mesmerizing... couldn't put it down' 5 star reader review
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Heartbreaking, uplifting, and inspiring! You'll need tissues for this unforgettable listen. Newlyweds Lauren and Joshua are madly in love and looking to the future. Then, Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. To help Joshua through his grief, she writes a letter a month to be read over the year following her death. Each presents a different step or challenge to help him move on. Xe Sands is warm, engaging, and surprisingly funny as Lauren. Dion Graham, as Joshua, is incredibly authentic as he fights through his sorrow and struggles to engage with the instructions provided each month. Both narrators pull you in, making you invested in the characters and their journeys. You'll laugh, you'll cry--and you'll be reminded of the unexpected ways love has changed your life. K.S.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 26, 2021
      Higgins (Good Luck with That) delivers an outstanding romantic weeper with this tale of young newlyweds facing a terminal illness. Lauren Park is dying from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis—“twelve syllables of doom”—but she’s determined to leave a little bit of herself in her husband Josh’s life after she’s gone. She does so by writing letters to Josh and leaving them with her best friend to dole out month by month after her death. The letters are structured as to-do lists, ranging from basic tasks to ensure Josh takes care of himself (“Go to the grocery store and stop eating food from cartons over the sink. Don’t be a loser!”) to encouragement to start new relationships. After Lauren dies, Josh’s raw grief is palpable, as is Lauren’s reluctance to leave the love of her life, which comes through in her letters. Delightful supporting characters add to the charm, such as a Banana Republic salesman who comforts Josh after he has a breakdown while trying to fulfill one of Lauren’s tasks. Perfect pacing and plotting lift Higgins’s masterly latest. This is going to break (and restore) plenty of hearts.

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