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Pack Up the Moon

By: Kristan Higgins
Narrated by: Dion Graham, Xe Sands
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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 best-selling 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 best-selling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life's greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.

©2021 Kristan Higgins (P)2021 Recorded Books

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Heartwarming and important

There were times where the story brought out so much emotion in me it was almost painful, but it was beautifully written and narrated and I'm so happy that I purchased this audiobook and listen to it!

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loved it

I absolutely loved this book. such an amazing love story. If ever faced with such a thing. o hope to be so brave.

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a love story

I had personal experience with love and ipf so this really gripped.me. the story was wonderful.

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Not the usual

Another excellent book by Kristin Higgins. Totally different from her usual stories.
Sad & Beautiful at the same time.

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Beautiful love story

Another beautifully written, complex story by Kristan Higgins. The performance was great. I always love Xe Sands narrations.

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Loved it!!!

Loved the narrators and was a beautiful story. I really hated for it to end!

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Emotional highs and lows

Narrators were perfect for the characters. Sands brings Lauren’s personality to life. Witty and funny as well as her compassion for all her loved ones. Graham showed us who Josh was! I felt it all for Josh (his love). The story was hard at times, having lost loved ones myself. This authors story makes a person want to live life to it’s fullest.

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Such a great read

This was a great tear jerker!! I definitely recommend reading…..with a box of Kleenex!

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Love & grief

What a beautiful story of love & grieving your soul mate. Cried most of the book .

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Hard but great!

This is a special journey rarely discussed. I had to turn it off many times! I too have a lung disease but this turned out to be like a therapy for me

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