The Resource Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
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The item Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- This provocative, poignant memoir of a daughter whose mother left her behind by choice begs the question: Are we destined to make the same mistakes as our parents? One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, always tormented by the thought: Why did their mother abandon them? Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. After decades of hiding her painful memories, she has just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the fear she could do the same to her kids. But Melissa never expects to stumble across a cache of letters her mother wrote to her but never sent, which could hold the answers she seeks. Haunting yet ultimately uplifting, Pieces of My Mother chronicles one woman's quest to discover what drives a mother to walk away from the children she loves. Alternating between Melissa's tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother's final days, this captivating memoir reveals how our parents' choices impact our own and how we can survive those to forge our own paths
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781492615392
- Label
- Pieces of my mother: : a memoir
- Title
- Pieces of my mother:
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Melissa Cistaro
- Subject
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- Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography
- Absentee mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Childhood and youth
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Family
- Electronic books
- Mothers -- United States -- Death
- Mothers and daughters -- United States
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Mothers -- United States -- Correspondence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This provocative, poignant memoir of a daughter whose mother left her behind by choice begs the question: Are we destined to make the same mistakes as our parents? One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, always tormented by the thought: Why did their mother abandon them? Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. After decades of hiding her painful memories, she has just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the fear she could do the same to her kids. But Melissa never expects to stumble across a cache of letters her mother wrote to her but never sent, which could hold the answers she seeks. Haunting yet ultimately uplifting, Pieces of My Mother chronicles one woman's quest to discover what drives a mother to walk away from the children she loves. Alternating between Melissa's tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother's final days, this captivating memoir reveals how our parents' choices impact our own and how we can survive those to forge our own paths
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Dewey number
- 306.874/3
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Mothers and daughters
- Abandoned children
- Absentee mothers
- Mothers
- Mothers
- Olympia (Wash.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11547405
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781492615392
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11547405
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11547405
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Pieces of my mother: : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11547405
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781492615392
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11547405
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11547405
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography
- Absentee mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Childhood and youth
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Family
- Electronic books
- Mothers -- United States -- Death
- Mothers and daughters -- United States
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Mothers -- United States -- Correspondence
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