Steph Harper is convinced that only space --- outer space --- can save her. From a childhood of fearful running and alienation; from a family and community that threaten to suffocate her with their reverence for the past. TO THE MOON AND BACK charts the course of Steph’s singular dream: to become the first Cherokee astronaut, no matter who or what she has to leave behind. But despite her self-prescribed loneliness and reckless ambition, Steph’s story isn’t hers alone. The book also brings to life the vibrant, complex women --- a celebrity activist younger sister, an ex-Mormon college girlfriend, and a devoted mother with a crushing secret --- who insist on loving her...even when she least deserves them.