MELISSA CISTARO at Books Inc. Mountain View

Local author Melissa Cistaro discusses her captivating memoir, Pieces of My Mother. 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.

 

 

Event date: 
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
Books Inc.
301 Castro St
Mountain View, CA

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