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First, the facts:

Title: Pack Up the Moon

Author: Rachael Herron

Published by: NAL Trade, 2014

Pages: 384

Type: Novel

The In-Depth Look:

I know. I just told you about this book a couple days ago. I was so excited about Rachael’s new book, I wanted to be sure you knew about it, so you could be excited too.

So, what’s different?

Well now, I’ve actually read the book and can tell you what I really think!

(*nail biting ensues*)

You’ll be pleased to know that I can, in fact, back up that recommendation with more recommendation, because I couldn’t put this book down.

Or, I say that, but actually, I had to … reluctantly … which is why I was late to work that first morning. And a little tardy getting back from lunch.

Luckily for me and my employer, I finished reading it that second night.

I’ve read Rachael’s other books and enjoyed them. (Her series of memoir essays, A Life in Stitches, is probably my favorite.) But this? Oh, she’s grown as a writer. This is beautiful and complex with layers of emotion and grief and pain and healing, all mixed up with the complicated definitions of what exactly makes a family. There’s heartbreak here, plenty of it, but hope and healing, too.

I don’t want to give anything more away than what you already know. Three years after losing her young son, Kate is contacted by the 22-year old daughter she’d put up for adoption years before, without ever telling her then-boyfriend and now-ex-husband she’d been pregnant. Cue an assortment of angst and emotion and secrets and truths and … well, it was gripping!

Run to Amazon or your nearest bookstore and check it out.

Other posts for this author:

• Interview with Rachael Herron
• How to Knit a Love Song
• How to Knit a Heart Back Home
• A Life in Stitches
• Pack Up the Moon

Today is publication day for my friend Rachael Herron’s latest book, Pack Up the Moon, and I wanted to be sure to spread the word.

Not strictly a knitting-lit book (unlike her popular Cypress Hollow series), this one stands alone, so even if it’s without knitting, it’s a good place to start if you haven’t given her books a try yet. (See the links below.) I know I can’t wait for my copy to come.

Here’s the description from the Amazon website:

Three years after a horrible tragedy took her son and tore her family apart, artist Kate Monroe is beginning to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. At a gala showcasing her triumphant return to the art world, Kate’s world is rocked again when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-two years ago introduces herself.

Pree is the child Kate never knew and never forgot. But Pree has questions that Kate isn’t sure she’s ready to answer. For one thing, she never told Pree’s father, her high school sweetheart and ex-husband, Nolan, that they had a daughter. For another, Kate hasn’t spoken to Nolan for three years, not since the accident which took their nine-year-old son from them. But to keep Pree from leaving forever, Kate will have to confront the secrets that have haunted her since her son died and discover if the love of her family is strong enough to survive even the most heartbreaking of betrayals…

Please help spread the word! I know, I haven’t read this one yet, but if it’s anything like her last several books, it won’t disappoint. You can get your copy from your local bookstore or from Amazon.com.

My Gush: I can’t wait to read it.

Other posts for this author:

• Interview with Rachael Herron
• How to Knit a Love Song
• How to Knit a Heart Back Home
• A Life in Stitches