{"product_id":"missing-9781737513445","title":"Missing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed children's book author Cornelia Maude Spelman's memoir of her family springs from a meeting and subsequent friendship with the late, legendary \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eeditor William Maxwell in the 1920s. When Spelman hints at what she thinks of as the failure of her parents' lives, he counters that \"in a good novel one doesn't look for a success story, but for a story that moves one with its human drama and richness of experience.\" Maxwell encourages her to tell her mother's story at their final meeting. \u003cem\u003eMissing \u003c\/em\u003eis Spelman's response to Maxwell's wisdom. With the pacing of the mystery novels her mother loved and using everything from letters and interviews to the family's quotidian paper trail-medical records, telegrams, and other oft-overlooked clues to a family's history-Spelman reconstructs her mother's life and untimely death. Along the way, she unravels mysteries of her family, including the fate of her long-lost older brother. Spelman skillfully draws the reader into the elation and sorrow that accompanies the discovery of a family's past. A profoundly loving yet honest elegy, \u003cem\u003eMissing \u003c\/em\u003eis complex and beautiful like the mother it memorializes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jackleg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737513445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Cornelia Spelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42183778566325,"sku":"9781737513445","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ad8ac93b-f312-4e6c-8577-8765d31b7169.jpg?v=1654570825","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/missing-9781737513445","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}