Check This Out host Rachel Barenbaum talks with debut novelist Eliana Ramage about her debut novel, "To the Moon and Back."
After a tumultuous childhood, Steph Harper sets her sights as far away from Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma as she can get.
She vows 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" follows Steph’s journey, entwined with the lives of the three women closest to her, her mother, her sister and her college girlfriend.
In Steph’s certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the breaking point.
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