Eleanora in Pieces

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About Eleanora in Pieces

Title: Eleanora in Pieces

Author: Jessica Maffetore

Pub Date: September 5, 2024

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Find it: Amazon

It’s been two years since her 4-year-old son… her baby… her Owen… disappeared from his bed in the middle of the night.

Every day Eleanora waits for news that he’s been found. And every day she lives with the nightmare of knowing that she failed to protect her son.

Intuition tells her that Owen is alive, and Eleanora shuts out everyone who doesn’t believe. But she fails to see that her single-minded hope has come at the expense of everything else she used to care about. With her career ruined, her marriage disintegrating, and her family coping with the loss in ways she can’t understand, Eleanora is left trying to claw her way out of the black hole her world has become.

When a surprise suddenly offers Eleanora a second chance at happiness, she is shocked to feel…nothing.

Doubting her own worth, questioning her right to find peace, and still praying for her son’s return, Eleanora struggles to see that life, ugly and painful as it can be, might still be worth living.

Blurbs for Eleanora in Pieces

A mother’s agony is brought to heart-wrenching life in this extraordinary debut from Jessica Maffetore. Her first person account of the two years following the disappearance of Eleanora’s little boy is starkly realistic and emotionally affecting without descending into sentimentality. Despite the somber themes of the book, Maffetore skillfully relieves the tension through Eleanora’s subtly wry observations, from her Italian mother’s reliance on food to cure all ills, to her therapist’s unorthodox clothing choices. I’m eagerly anticipating more from this impressive author!- Regina Buttner, Author of The Revenge Paradox

Jessica Maffetore’s debut novel, Eleanora in Pieces, is a painstakingly wrought story of a mother unable to accept the disappearance of her toddler son. Eleanora moves through her days as if slogging through mud, often succumbing to her depression by staying in bed and eventually pushing everyone away, including her husband. The moment-by-moment descriptions of Eleanora’s world are well-written and insightful, rich and painful, real and heartbreaking. Maffetore’s writing lifts the story and inserts the reader into Eleanora’s world, creating a character who is both likable and fractured, both by her child’s disappearance as well as the struggle after her husband announces his affair with another woman.

We both root for Eleanora and sympathize with the daily pain of losing a child and having your world fall apart. Nothing in the world can be worse than what Eleanora endures, but she keeps on going “because Owen may come home” at any time. Bravo to Maffetore for writing a stunning and intricately shaped novel about how we handle loss and yet keep on living.- Dawn Reno Langley, Author of Analyzing the Prescotts

Review for Eleanora in Pieces

The story threw the abduction of Owen at us right off the bat, fantastic job of starting in the action and hooking the reader. The shock, depression, and sickening feeling of not knowing what happened to her son was skillfully written. I have no idea what losing a child is like, so I hesitate here. I’d be in a straight jacket, no doubt. For reading purposes, being in the pit of despair went on for too long with nothing else really happening. And then, boom, I was not expecting the surprising twist. You can’t help but hug this poor woman who has had the worst of life thrown at her. Though the ending is not rubies and roses, it is a believable conclusion. Great job on a debut novel and I’d love to see where the author goes from here.

About The Author

Jessica Maffetore is a New England based author whose work has appeared in several literary magazines including Poetry Quarterly, Third Wednesday, and Clare Literary Journal. She has also been a guest columnist in the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise. Jessica attended the University of Hartford for Public Relations and Journalism and holds an MA in English Literature from Fitchburg State University.

When not writing, Jessica is training to run marathons with her husband, going for walks with her rescue dogs, being tolerated by her teenage kids, growing vegetables in her garden, and dreaming about where to travel next. She lives north of Boston with her husband, three children, the aforementioned rescue dogs, and a pair of very opinionated house cats.

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