Name: The Pull of the Moon
ISBN: 9780515120899

Elizabeth Berg

In a story about the issues of the heart, fifty-year-old Nan leaves behind her beloved husband in order to follow the pull of the moon in order to find herself and the place she believes is her home. Reprint. AB.

The Pull of the Moon

"Dear Martin I'm sorry the note I left you was so abrupt. I just wanted you to know I was safe...I won't be backc for a while. I'm on a trip. I needed all of a suddden to go, without saying where, because I don't know where. I know this is not like me. I know that. But please believe me, I am safe and I am not crazy. I felt as though if I didn't do this I wouldn't be safe and I would be crazy... And can you belive this? I love you an" Sometimes you have to leave your life behind for a while to see it and really live freshly again. In this luminous, exquisitely written novel, a woman follows the pull of the moon to find her way home. Sometimes humerous, sometimes heartbreaking, always honest, The Pull of the Moon is a novel about the journey of one woman - and about the issues of the heart that transforms the lives of all women."

Full of the rich inner dialogue of a woman entering a new phase of life—the one “full of endings” as she calls it. The book expresses the very thing the protagonist lacks in her life: freedom to be herself without apology. 10/10 will read again 

Bri Cortez

Disturbed by the course of her life and marriage, Nan embarks on a backroad odyssey, following the moon and stopping to talk with women, men, her husband through letters, and herself through her diary, and discovering how her life can be reshaped.

The Pull of the Moon

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