A few years ago, Paige took a DNA test and it cemented everything she knew about her background. One day she gets an email from the DNA testing website letting her know that she matches a man she has never met, but the site claims that genetically, he must be her father.
How could that be? She was raised by her parents and had a tremendously close relationship with her father, who died two years ago. But the more she thinks about things she wonders if this question in her parentage is why her mother always seemed so distant from Paige, why she doesn’t resemble anyone else in the family, and why she's the only one with artistic talent.
Paige is desperate to understand the truth, but her mother isn’t interested in sharing details. She insists that Paige’s father is the man who raised her. And that's true, really. But what isn’t her mother telling her? And what does it mean if everything she has ever believed about herself is no longer true?
Little Pieces of Me is told in dual narratives. One follows Paige’s search for answers, perhaps from the one person she never knew existed, while the other, some 44 years earlier, follows Betsy, Paige’s mother, as she tries to reconcile wanting a life of excitement with the person offering her a life of stability.
I looked a lot like my dad, who died almost 7 years ago, and we shared many of the same mannerisms. (Plus he loved to read, too.) While there never was any doubt who my father was, I can’t imagine what it would be like to find out that you never actually knew the truth about your father.
As she did with her first book, You and Me and Us, Hammer left me teary-eyed at times but fully invested in the story. While perhaps the lack of communication among characters frustrated me occasionally, I love the way Hammer writes and needed to finish the book before going to bed.
William Morrow Books and Get Red PR Books provided me with a complimentary advance copy of the book in exchange for an unbiased review. Thanks for making it available!!
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