{"product_id":"coffee-killed-my-mother-9798987564653","title":"Coffee Killed My Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnna Lee is an anxious 17-year-old whose life is stuck, largely because of her strained relationship with her mother Jacqueline, a quirky recovering alcoholic who is now addicted to coffee. The two take a road trip to explore independent coffee shops along the east coast, but Jacqueline's real agenda is an opportunity to reveal a series of disturbing family secrets-a fatal drunk driving accident, an abusive parent, and her mother's betrayal of a woman Anna Lee holds dear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As Donna Stramella strengthens Anna Lee's voice and probes her choices, readers receive a realistic story of an entire family struggling to recover not just from alcoholism, but the codependent pattern it creates. ...thoroughly engrossing and hard to put down.\" Midwest Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCoffee Killed My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderfully written tale about a mother-daughter journey. Stramella's novel shows an admirable level of professionalism with its characters and settings, and promises great things for the first-time author.\" Nancy Stancill, Author of \u003cem\u003eSaving Texas\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWinning Texas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written in Anna Lee's seventeen-year-old voice, Stramella's writing is superb, her characters fully developed and relatable, her settings of small-town eastern seaboard America realistic. Easily one of the best novels I've read this year, I look forward to reading more of Donna Stramella's work.\" Toni Morgan, Author of \u003cem\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eQueenie's Place\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stramella does a wonderful job of doling out Jacqueline's persona from behind a curtain of secrets and half-truths that drives the story's pacing to its unexpected conclusion.\" James White, Author of \u003cem\u003eRansoms are for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHelen and her Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quill Hawk Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488561893650,"sku":"9798987564653","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38c45cda-2373-4066-99cd-6f8e3e3b90c5.jpg?v=1730480380","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/coffee-killed-my-mother-9798987564653","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}