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This provocative, poignant memoir of the daughter whose mom left her at the rear of by choice begs the question: Are we destined to make the same mistakes as our parents? One summer Melissa Cistaro's mom drove off without justification. Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to get the items, always suffering from the thought: Why did their mother forego them? Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa locates herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mom is dying. After years of hiding her painful recollections, she has just days to find out what occurred that summer and confront worries she could do the same to her kids. But Melissa never desires to stumble across a cache of letters her mother wrote to her but never sent - letters that can contain the answers she looks for. Haunting yet in the end uplifting, Parts of My Mother chronicles one woman's pursuit to discover what drives a mom to leave from the children she loves. Alternating between Melissa's tumultuous arriving of age and her mother's last days, this captivating memoir reveals how our parents' alternatives impact our very own and how exactly we may survive those to forge our very own paths.
