Pack Up the Moon - Kristan Higgins

Written by Kristan Higgins
Read by Dion Graham, Xe Sands
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: June 8, 2021
Duration: 13:37:04

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.

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.

“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.”….AudioFile