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 Deschutes Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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 Deschutes Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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--letters that 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
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 42 min., 29 sec.))
- Isbn
- 9781504610506
- 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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- Absentee mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Audiobooks
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Childhood and youth
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Family
- Downloadable audio books
- Mothers -- United States -- Correspondence
- Mothers -- United States -- Death
- Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Mothers and daughters -- United States
- 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--letters that 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
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Dewey number
- 306.874/3
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- CT275.C597
- LC item number
- A3 2015ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
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- autobiography
- memoirs
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Angela Brazil
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Brazil, Angela
- 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.)
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Pieces of my mother : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908635318
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 42 min., 29 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504610506
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 3821e5c6-8888-489d-9b77-fdf60b50e15d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908635318
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Pieces of my mother : a memoir, Melissa Cistaro
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908635318
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 42 min., 29 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504610506
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 3821e5c6-8888-489d-9b77-fdf60b50e15d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908635318
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Absentee mothers -- United States -- Biography
- Audiobooks
- Cistaro, Melissa
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Childhood and youth
- Cistaro, Melissa -- Family
- Downloadable audio books
- Mothers -- United States -- Correspondence
- Mothers -- United States -- Death
- Abandoned children -- United States -- Biography
- Olympia (Wash.) -- Biography
- Mothers and daughters -- United States
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