Local author Melissa Cistaro discusses her captivating memoir, Pieces of My Mother. One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation. Thirty-five years later, 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. 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.
Local author Melissa Cistaro discusses her captivating memoir, Pieces of My Mother. One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation. Thirty-five years later, 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. 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.
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