Little Pieces of Me: A Moving Story Told in Dual Timelines About a Mother's Impossible Choice and a Daughter's Search for Truth - Couverture souple

Hammer, Alison

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ISBN 10 : 0062934872 ISBN 13 : 9780062934871

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2021

Synopsis

“A powerful story of family and connection that is just as fun as it is heartbreaking. I didn’t want the story to end.” —  Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost and Everything After 

Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself.

When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mother’s past and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up, Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. Could this be why Paige never felt like she fit in her family, and why her mother always seemed to keep her at an arm’s length? And what does it mean for Paige’s memories of her father, a man she idolized and whose death she is still grieving?

Back in 1975, Betsy Kaplan, Paige’s mom, is a straightlaced sophomore at the University of Kansas. When her sweet but boring boyfriend disappoints her, Betsy decides she wants more out of life, and is tired of playing it safe. Enter Andy Abrams, the golden boy on campus with a potentially devastating secret. After their night together has unexpected consequences, Betsy is determined to bury the truth and rebuild a stable life for her unborn child, whatever the cost.

When Paige can’t get answers from her mother, she goes looking for the only other person who was there that night. The more she learns about what happened, the more she sees her unflappable, distant mother as a real person faced with an impossible choice. But will it be enough to mend their broken relationship?

Told in dual timelines, Little Pieces of Me examines identity and how the way we define ourselves changes (or not) through our life experiences. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Founder of the Every Damn Day Writers, Alison Hammer has been spinning words to tell stories since she learned how to talk. A graduate of the University of Florida and the Creative Circus in Atlanta, she lived in nine cities before settling down in Chicago, where she works as a VP creative director at an advertising agency. You & Me & Us is her first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0062934872
• ISBN 13: 9780062934871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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