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Pull of the Moon Paperback – January 1, 2004

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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 back for a while. I'm on a trip. I needed all of a sudden 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 believe this? I love you. - Nan.

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 humorous, 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arrow Books (January 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099451743
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099451747
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.55 x 7.8 inches

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Elizabeth Berg is the author of eighteen novels and has more than 1.5 million books in print. Her novel, OPEN HOUSE, was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Berg lives near Chicago, Illinois. Visit her at www.elizabeth-berg.net

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L. Maddox

Great book for any woman looking for herself

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2013

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Love, love, love Elizabeth Berg and the way she writes. This book is for any woman that feels like life passed her by while she was doing for others and helping them get to where they wanted to be. This quote from the book really struck a cord with me, "I had ideas at one time. Where did I go? Oh, I had errands to run and had things to do. I needed to get married and have a child and go underground for twenty-five years, be pleasantly suffocated. I meant to come back. But the bread crumbs got blown away". I think a lot women go through this as they move into the third of their lives; lose their way and not know how to get back to themselves. After you have been consumed with everyone else for so long, it takes some time and maybe time by yourself to be still and listen. To listen to your heart, your wants, your desires. This book takes you on one woman's journey and it seems to be in a sort of diary form. I love the way she writes her husband daily and talks with him so that he really has to listen; much harder for him to do face to face. Hopefully, by the time she is ready to go home, she will be more sure of her future and her husband will understand more about his wife. Maybe they both will remember what brought them together in the first place and they can begin again. But this time with no expectations, no blame and no condescension, only respect for one another that will give their love a chance to grow and mature. Great read!

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Dyane

touching story

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024

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The author has a way of expressing what so many women think but don’t express in words. It feels very personal.

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today I picked up one that satisfied my story-tooth

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2016

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After ranting on my blog that I couldn't find a book, today I picked up one that satisfied my story-tooth. The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg is a brilliantly conceived, beautifully written story about a woman's journey, from what happens to us at 12 to the transformation that comes with our 50s. Nan is none of us, yet my guess is that each of us will find something to identify with as she goes walkabout from her marriage. She doesn't leave her husband as much as she goes looking for her lost self.

Talking about being part of the "bridge" generation, she says, "We flowered in the sixties, but the spirit of the fifties was deep in us." That identity split may make this a book that works more for those of us over 50 than younger women. As Nan travels about, she connects with strangers who help her find pieces of herself that got lost along the way.

One of the heart-breaking stories she hears comes from an 86-year-old farm woman who shows her poems her husband wrote to her. After he died, she found them buried in a drawer, apparently not thinking they were actually good enough to give to her.

I take back my rant ... apparently I haven't been looking in the right places.

And for the one-star reviewers, I understand your criticisms. Few of us have the resources (and the patient husbands) that would make this journey possible. But, as someone who lost her husband at the beginning of her 60s, I recognize so many of the feelings of losing pieces of myself without even realizing it. I remember a day after he died when I realized that I truly didn't know what I wanted to eat. After 40 years of marriage, my first thought was always, "What would he want?" It has taken 10 years, but I'm starting to recognize my own tastes and needs.

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Bret Scott

A Thoughtful Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2014

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This book is the second I've ready by Elizabeth Berg, and I know I want to read others. I like her style and the subjects she covers. This, "The Pull of the Moon," deals with a woman's search for herself as she is aging (she's 50 in the book) and a little (seems to me) lost, directionwise. It is a common passage to go through, and like other life experiences, is most helpful when shared and understood from the perspectives of others.

I am a bit older than the main character, Nan, but I could certainly identify with many of her thoughts and feelings ( having "been there," etc.). Though I did not take the same kind of trip she took to "find herself," I believe I experienced my "trip" by involving myself in a variety of activities. The role of the -- albeit fortunate -- non-working woman is a difficult one. I was not thrilled with some of the reviewers here who labeled the main character Nan as self-centered or selfish, telling her to "get a hobby," or "do volunteer work." While those are fine activities, we as individuals, and women (though fortunate to not need to work to earn money) often have a difficult time discovering the meaning of why we exist; men largely (and nowadays many women, too) define themselves by the work they do. Indeed, I seem to recall Nan describing her husband as someone who didn't need to work any longer (certainly had the means to live very comfortably), but kept on doing so anyway. This speaks to me of the need to identify with one's work -- something she didn't have.

To me, Nan's was a thoughtful personal discovery -- and brought me back to a time when my children were young and I was a stay-at-home mom thinking I could go nuts if life didn't change. I believe we all need purpose -- and just being someone's mother is not purpose enough, since the children grow up and leave someday. What do you have then? Women throughout the ages -- remember women in the middle 1800s, people like Mary Todd Lincoln -- have intelligence and much to offer and often don't get to use their gifts when they are stuck in traditional roles (or not permitted due to traditions, etc., as it was for women of past centuries. We only got the vote less than 100 years ago ...) Many of those women actually did seem "crazy" (for lacking a suitable way to express themselves) and were often committed to mental institutions.

Berg's reference to how girls change by the age of 12 stayed with me, too. Yes, as far along as women have come we very often "allow" men to be in charge -- we give up hopes, dreams and, yes, power to fully develop as individuals.

I recommend this book and feel it was well worth the time reading it. I gave it just three stars since I wish it went into more depth in some areas, and I wish it were longer -- that's about my only problem; I would've liked more of it. Maybe that's the book I shall have to write some day ... Elizabeth Berg, you may have inspired me.

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Pull of the Moon by E. Berg

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2014

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I read this book in an afternoon. She really captures the characters and is so quirky you don't know what is coming next. I will order more of her books in the near future.

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Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2011

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This book, is an amazing read. I first read it when I was 40 and then some of it was 'me' and some i thought, never!. Now having read it again at age 66, I relate to all of it!! it is a book that could have been written by most women about us and our feelings as we go through different stages of life. now i have it in hard copy and have bought 5 for gifts, s I know it will be sooo appreciated by the recipients. All women should read it, men should also, it would give them a glimpse into how we fell as we age and live longer in our relationships and maybe both would benefit greatly form the experience.

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a really good read. left it with my sister and she turned it into a book club read and they all liked it too

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