Can’t Wait Wednesday – PACK UP THE MOON by Kristan Higgins

 

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about.  It is a meme that I have  loved participating in for over a year now, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.

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My selection for this week is PACK UP THE MOON by Kristan Higgins.  This sounds like one of those reads where I’ll probably need an entire box of tissues by my side, but I love Kristan Higgins’ writing so this is a must-read for me.

 

PACK UP THE MOON by Kristan Higgins

Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 by Berkley

From Goodreads:

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.

 

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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂

20 replies
  1. verushka
    verushka says:

    This is giving me PS I love You vibes, and yes, I was tearing up at the end of this blurb *bawls*

  2. Tanya @ Girl Plus Books
    Tanya @ Girl Plus Books says:

    I’ve never read anything by Higgins despite seeing her books everywhere. But this one sounds like a women’s fiction read that is right up my alley. Already looking forward to this one next summer.

    • Suzanne
      Suzanne says:

      I just started reading her books last year and have been really impressed by them. If you try this one, I hope you enjoy it. 🙂

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