{"product_id":"parting-gifts-9781631520396","title":"Parting Gifts","description":"Broken by their unorthodox Midwestern childhood, sisters Catherine, Anne, and Jessica Mathers search for love, acceptance, and worth--often in the most unlikely places. Catherine, the oldest of the Mathers sisters, is an English professor battling breast cancer with Cytoxan, red wine, and profanity. Anne is a wife and stay-at-home mother of two struggling to make ends meet in a suburban existence that both suffocates and confounds her. Jessica, the youngest by ten years and estranged--by choice--from her family, is an exotic dancer who feels safer on stage than in a relationship. But when the sisters are faced with an incomprehensible loss, they are forced to reevaluate themselves, their damaged bonds, and their fragile future. \u003ci\u003eParting Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates one highly dysfunctional family's tentative, desperate crawl toward a life of meaning and worth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatrina Anne Willis, 2011 Midwest Writers Fellow and 2015 BlogHer Voice of the Year, is an author, blogger, and essayist. An Indianapolis \u003ci\u003eListen to Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e participant and contributor to \u003ci\u003eMamalode\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, her work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eNothing but the Truth So Help Me God: 73 Women On Life's Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e (Nothing but the Truth Publishing, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eMy Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Leaving and Losing Friends\u003c\/i\u003e (HerStories Project Press, 2014). She was awarded the 2014 Parenting Media Association's Gold Medal Blogger Award for her work with \u003ci\u003eIndy's Child \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Willis lives in Northwest Ohio with the love of her life, Chris, and her four fabulous teenagers, Sam, Gus, Mary Claire, and George. Learn more at www.katrinaannewillis.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160378437906,"sku":"9781631520396","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_adddde2b-9782-42f7-9c89-f7cbe4c564b3.jpg?v=1775056879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/parting-gifts-9781631520396","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}