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    Pack Up the Moon
    Pack Up the Moon
    Pack Up the Moon
    Audiobook13 hours

    Pack Up the Moon

    Written by Kristan Higgins

    Narrated by Xe Sands and Dion Graham

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Every month, a letter.

    That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face this first year without her, leading him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins.

    Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

    As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future--a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren.

    But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him. In those letters, one for every month in the year after her death, Lauren leads Joshua on a journey through pain, anger, and denial. It's a journey that will take Joshua from his attempt at a dinner party for family and friends to getting rid of their bed...from a visit with a psychic medium to a kiss with a woman who isn't Lauren. As his grief makes room for laughter and new relationships, Joshua learns Lauren's most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn't follow a straight line.

    Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, and always uplifting, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life's greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 8, 2021
    ISBN9781980036319
    Pack Up the Moon
    Author

    Kristan Higgins

    Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA TODAY bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She has received dozens of awards and accolades, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Journal of Books and Kirkus. Kristan lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, two atypically affectionate children, a neurotic rescue mutt and an occasionally friendly cat.

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    • 4/5
      Made me cry right off the bat. Good book, very sad. Kept you reading!!
    • 5/5
      I love this book so much that I listened to it twice in one month! Touching and a bit sad, with just the right amount of comic relief. Xe Sands is my favorite narrator, and the male narrator here was perfect for this character. Highly recommended!!
    • 5/5
      Brilliant beautiful heartbreaking heartfelt. I adored it.
      Have tissues ready.
    • 5/5
      I WEPT. Such a great payoff and love the timeline and perspective choices. Well done Kristan!!
    • 3/5
      The story was okay. I wish Kristan Higgins would switch to a new female narrator.
    • 5/5
      So good. Do yourself a favor and listen to this book. The emotion is so real and if you need a good tear jerker this one is for you
    • 5/5
      EXCELLENT be prepared to ugly cry. Such a beautiful story of love & life.
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written tragic love story. Heartwarming, heartfelt and heartbreaking at all once.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. What a rollercoaster of emotions. The idea that Lauren spent time while dying to make sure that Josh, the love of her life had something to help guide him through the grieving process for the first year after her death was selfless, full of love and absolutely beautiful.

      Some of the tasks and the way Josh carries them out was funny and cute in a goofy way. Through the whole book I could actually feel the emotions in most character interactions but especially between Josh and Lauren and between Lauren and her dad who had died when she was younger and on whom she relied on for emotional support by writing him letters throughout her life.

      This was a sweet, heartbreaking story full of loss, grief and a whole lot of love.
    • 5/5
      So sad but so good can’t stop crying go read
    • 5/5
      Poignant and funny at times. Characters are real and likable. Have Kleenex at the ready!
    • 5/5
      Amazing! I laughed and I cried! Could not stop listening!
    • 5/5
      One of the best books I've listened to in a long time.
    • 4/5
      While I was reading this book, I often felt like it was overboard as far as Josh and Lauren's love affair and marriage was concerned. They were each so perfect and beautiful and handsome and talented and they loved each other so much. They knew it from the second time they met. However, as the story switched back and forth between their relationship as it progressed forward in time and Lauren's life from her death backwards to their meeting, I felt different towards each of them as I learned more about them individually. There are some very emotional moments and hard-to-read parts.
    • 5/5
      I must admit, I really wondered if I wanted to read this---it seemed just too depressing amid all the current problems in the world. However....I really loved the characters Joshua met and dealt with as the story of his wife's death progressed over time. And SO many detail along the way. He was a little unbelievable in terms of his Asperger's -- perhaps surprisingly low on the spectrum in many aspects although his explosive potential was significant. In some ways there was almost too much "love" --- as Lauren's condition continued---would it really be possible for anyone to be over 100% committed to that kind of care? It would be wonderful if it was as believable as the book seemed to describe. Although I wondered IF the book could have been shorter? Hard to imagine because there were so many details that kept fitting in along the way.
    • 4/5
      Not sure how this found its way to me, but though it dealt with the death of a partner, through several perspectives, and could have been really sad or really bad, it was neither. Having a chronic illness that can take you out in a moment is definitely an adjustment. I don't think I am as together about it as Lauren was (I know I'm not), but her thought process and plan were interesting for me to read. Plus there is a mention of Ehlers-Danlos in the narrative, which I also have, along with potential time bomb of my own. 2021 pandemic resurgence/Delta variant read. (Please wear a mask, get vaccinated, and stay safe.)