\u201cSwing, Luna, Swing,\u201d<\/a> has only been on Amazon for about a week now, but she has already sold 120 copies.<\/p>\nMack received the Jackson family\u2019s blessing to publish the book, and all proceeds are going back to the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cSwinging just brought her so much joy,\u201d Mack said. \u201cShe had a specific swing that she would sit on every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSwing, Luna, Swing\u201d begins at night in a park, the same setting where Jackson\u2019s life ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was heartbreaking to see what was happening in the community,\u201d Mack said. \u201cWhat can you do in that situation? There’s nothing that you can do to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The book first began as a poem, a way for Mack to process what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote it all in one sitting, and it was like, this is just what I needed to write,\u201d Mack said.<\/p>\n
Jackson never met Mack, but the teen spent countless hours with Mack’s mother, the director of the Farnhamville Public Library.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, writing the book and publishing the book was\u00a0really\u00a0meaningful because of how much she loved the library and loved reading,\u201d Mack said.<\/p>\n
The book concludes with Jackson jumping off her swing and flying high above the stars and the clouds. It encourages the reader to look up to the skies for Jackson\u2019s presence, if they ever hear a swing creaking and no one\u2019s around.<\/p>\n
Several nearby libraries, including Farnhamville, Harcourt, Eagle Grove, Lohrville and Gowrie, will have copies of \u201cSwing, Luna, Swing\u201d available for checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The book begins with a girl on her swing and ends with her jumping off of it and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-92910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114917097477119881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}