Leipciger gives a great travel log of Canada from Ontario to BC while blending in a twenty year saga of what happened to a troubled loved 22 yr old daughter that suddenly disappeared. Makes you think what you would do and for how long if your child disappeared.

This is a book about grieving parents searching for their missing daughter. I love this book, the writing was smart, and I loved how the mundane every day things can mean so much between some people but mean very little to others outside of it, or due to time.

5/5, thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Random House. I want to read all of her books now.

My heart broke for Kathleen and Yannick as we follow them on a journey to discover if remains that were found belong to their missing daughter. Sarah Leipciger realistically portrays how people react differently to situations they face. Moon Road was a powerful read and I felt many different emtions throughout they story. Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for my ARC.

LOVE

I was pulled in right from the beginning. I knew I would like this one. And I didn't just like it, I loved it.

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This was a unique read. In parts I found it a bit clunky, but overall I like the familiarity of it as they take from Ontario across the provinces. The mundaneness of life and the uprooting of an event is well represented and makes for an emotionally infused read.

Deliberate and haunting, Moon Road deftly explores loss and human connection. It's unassumingly tense and unapologetically beautiful.

Decades after their daughter goes missing, a long divorced couple road trips across the country when new evidence may finally give them answers.

The writing is beautiful and melodic, the chapters balance alternating perspectives of current events and their recollection of the past. These sections have interludes from the POV of the missing daughter and let me tell you, it's been a long while since I was this rapt with anticipation.

It's not a thriller or even a mystery but I was so tense as each page brought us a little closer to finding out what happened. It reminded me of a hybrid of two Emily St. John Mandel novels, Last Night in Montreal and The Glass Hotel but it absolutely stands on it's own and was a brilliant read.

I'm so thankful to Netgalley and Penguin Random House Canada the advanced copy of this novel.

A book about grieving parents searching for a lost daughter. The mother’s grief is profound and causes her to alienate herself from meaningful relationships with almost everyone in her life . The father the same . The book recounts this grief plus a road trip to Vancouver to search for answers.The ending is satisfying for the reader but not for the parents. A book of loss and never knowing why .

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

3.5* rounded up. Kathleen and Yannick's daughter Una disappeared in Tofino about 20 years ago and they are contacted after human remains are found in a provincial park. They drive from Ontario to Vancouver Island so that Kathleen can give a DNA sample for comparison purposes (even though she could have done this in Ontario) and to see the site where the body was found. Kathleen is fairly unlikeable and Yannick (from whom she has been divorced for several decades and estranged from for most of the time Una has been missing) is gentle except when he drinks. There are continual flashbacks describing Yannick's subsequent marriages and how each has dealt with the loss of Una. There are also chapters from the perspective of 'our girl' which it gradually becomes clear are explaining exactly what happened to Una.

Once I had got over the fact that Kathleen was so hard to like, I quite enjoyed this novel, and especially the road trip element. Once they hit BC and started stopping at places I have actually lived and/or holidayed I was very excited, but in fact at that point I started to like the book less. Who would imagine Prince George would feature as a place Kathleen visited? I know Prince George well, but got no sense of it from the description here. Tofino was represented better, but there was a sense of places being listed for the sake of it at times.

The ending was a little disappointing to me, not that I wanted everything tied up in a neat bow, but I wasn't sure what was next for Yannick and Kathleen. Beautifully written.