One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without a word. Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, wondering why their mother abandoned them. In Pieces of My Mother, decades later, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington with her dying mother and just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the past.
Melissa Cistaro is an events coordinator at Book Passage, the legendary San Francisco Bay Area independent bookstore. A writer and mother, she has been published in numerous literary journals, as well as in two anthologies alongside Anne Larnott, Jane Smiley, and others.
Location:
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925