News
Without My Mother
is a Canadian Bestseller
Globe & Mail
The Toronto Star
HarperCollins Canada
launches
Without My Mother
A Daughter’s Search for the Mother
who Abandoned Her
May 7th 2019
Pieces of My Mother is selected as the “Best Nonfiction Book of 2015” by the NCIBA-Northern California Booksellers Association
A stunning review in
The Chicago Review of Books
“Brutally Beautiful”
PBS To the Contrary
Guest with Bonnie Erbe
Mothers Who Leave
Melissa on the Huffington Post
On Horses, Mothers, Bookstores and How She Got Her First Book Deal
Pieces of My Mother selected as a May
Indie Next Pick
Interview with ABA’s Liz Button
Kirkus Reviews
Featured Author Interview for
Pieces of My Mother
with Alex Layman
Guest Post on
The Debutante Ball
On Writing Memoir and Pushing Past Distraction
Interview with Katie O’Reilly at
Michigan Quarterly Review
Talking about Mothers, Memoir and Letters Never Sent with the incredible
Caroline Leavitt
Interview: On Writing the Story Within and Finding Forgiveness
with Leslie Lindsay
Patrik Henry Bass of Essence Magazine &
The Book Reader reviews “Cistaro as a writer to watch”
Publisher’s Weekly
BEA 2015 feature
Marin Independent Journal
Mother’s Day Feature by Vicki Larson
Judith Collins reviews Pieces of My Mother at
JC Must Read Books
Ginger Beck’s review
The Red Savina Review
Brilliant Writer Radio
Listen to the interview Herewith Albert Flynn DeSilver
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A Daughter’s Search for the Mother
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