Shoot the Moon

By: Isa Arsén

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

How far would you travel for love?

Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can’t get distracted. Not now.

When her inability to ignore mistaken calculations propels her into a new position, Annie finds herself torn between her ambition, her heart, and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true. Can she overcome her doubts and reach beyond the limits of time and space?

Affecting, immersive, and kaleidoscopic, Shoot the Moon tells the story of one singular life at multiple points in time, one woman's quest to honor both her head and her heart amid the human toll of scientific progress.

Scientific Method? Really?

It’s difficult to write this without spoilers, so, be warned! This was a pleasant enough story until folks — scientists, no less, and from NASA, for goodness’ sake — skip over massive experimental protocols to test an “anomaly” with a human subject! Honestly, I nearly stopped listening right then! If experiments had been conducted that way at the real NASA, we’d never have achieved all we have! Still, the story was amusing and I did appreciate the strong (albeit limited, due to the historical period’s restrictions) female characters.

Moved this beautiful tale!

Magical and mesmerizing. I didn't want it to end. Very satisfying. A tale of space and time and love...different from everything you've read before.

Stick with it

I found the first third of this book pretty boring, BUT once the main character got into her science experiments the booked picked considerably. By the end I liked it and was happy I stuck with it.

absolutely magical!!

It's a wonderful story full of recursive themes and surprising epiphanies and deep observations and what it really means to be alive and to love. just when you think you know where it's going it's surprises you and then brings you right back where you started but with fresh knowing every time. it is an absolutely brilliant and wonderous and hope inspiring work and the narrative performance is unparalleled. I cannot recommend this one highly enough 🌛

Not Where it Could Have Gone

The storyline had great potential at the beginning, then it crumbled into a ridiculous second half. Not the adventurous and heart-warming novel you anticipate when reading the description.