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Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home

Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home - Paperback

by Jacque Gorelick
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jacque GorelickPublish date:2/17/2026Pages:292
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vine Leaves PressISBN-13:9783988322265ISBN-10:3988322261UPC:9783988322265Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Grief & LossSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCFHFTKJ2A

"Gracefully dances time backwards... Gorelick's love, wit and wisdom ripple through time, page after page." Heather Harpham, author of the Reese Witherspoon book club memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

After losing her mother at eight, Gorelick spends her childhood shuffling from one temporary home to the next, seeking belonging. In her twenties, she falls in love, marries, and has a baby-finally finding a glimpse of stability. But everything changes on a day that begins in sunshine and ends in a frantic 911 call when Jacque's husband collapses in front of her on a jogging trail.

What follows is a harrowing stretch in an ICU waiting room, where she must advocate for her comatose husband's life while caring for their newborn, navigating tenuous family dynamics, and confronting the ghosts of her past.

Map of a Heart is a deeply personal look at what it means to build a life when the foundation was fractured from the start. For readers who've ever asked, What makes a family?, this book offers an answer rooted in resilience, hope, and unconditional love.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Vine Leaves PressISBN-13:9783988322265ISBN-10:3988322261UPC:9783988322265Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Grief & LossSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCFHFTKJ2A
Gorelick, Jacque: - Jacque Gorelick is a former elementary school teacher who spent decades working with chil-dren and families before becoming a freelance writer. After spending her fractured childhood searching for belonging, Jacque pursued degrees in psychology and education at San Francisco State University. She has always been fascinated by how family shapes and defines us and how we ultimately choose to define it for ourselves. Her essays exploring the complexities of identity, motherhood, and the search for belonging have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Healthy Women, HuffPost and oth-ers. A California native, Jacque has lived all over the West Coast, from Santa Barbara to Alaska. Now rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, she lives beside a creek under redwood trees with her husband, two boys, and a mélange of rescues. Visit: jacquegorelick.com.
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press

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