"Glendy Vanderah's beautifully rendered The Oceanography of the Moon tackles the enormity of fate, identity, and climate crisis, while tending to the most delicate intricacies of the human heart. Such a beautifully written tale of buried secrets, dark pasts, and rare courage." -Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You
"Set against a backdrop of family and the mysterious, all-encompassing beauty of the natural world, Vanderah's gloriously readable new novel is a warm story of two damaged people desperate to heal and to find hope, resilience, and-just perhaps-each other. With the help of Riley's supportive family, a dash of everyday magic, and the healing power of nature, can the pair let go of the troubled pasts they've clung to so tightly for so long? In her, he recognizes a shared need to keep heartbreaking secrets buried.Īs the worst moments of their lives threaten to surface, Riley and Vaughn must find the courage to confront them if they're to have any hope of a happy future. He's soon captivated by their eccentricities-and especially by Riley and her quiet tenacity. Suffering from writer's block, bestselling novelist Vaughn Orr has taken to the country roads when he happens upon the accommodating, if somewhat unusual, Mays family. When a stranger enters her family's remote world, Riley senses something he's hiding, a desire to escape that she understands well. But ten years later, now twenty-one, Riley feels too confined by the protective walls she's erected around herself.
Here she found solace in caring for her extraordinary adoptive brother, exploring the surrounding wild nature, and gazing at the mystical moon-a private refuge in which she hides from her most painful memories. About the Book When best-selling novelist Vaughn Orr enters her family's remote Wisconsin world, Riley Mays senses he is hiding something she knows all too well, and as the worst moments of their lives threaten their newfound relationship, they must find the courage to confront them to have any hope of a happy future.Ī heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.Īfter the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins' Wisconsin farm.
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