{"title":"Cornelia Spelman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"missing-paperback-14","title":"Missing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67955897073887,"sku":"9781737513445","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qu6H-_PK2N9781737513445.webp?v=1791651195"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cornelia-spelman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}