Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir

New in paperback! From the events coordinator of San Francisco’s acclaimed Book Passage comes a provocative memoir that explores the complex emotional landscape of a child abandoned by her mother

One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother drove off without a word. Devastated, she and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, wondering why their mother abandoned them. Decades later, Melissa finds herself at her dying mother’s side, with just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the fear she could do the same to her own children. She never expects to stumble on a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent, which could hold the answers she seeks.