What I Had Before I Had You: A Haunting Dual Timeline Tale of Magical Realism, Family Secrets, and a Psychic Mother's Legacy on the Jersey Shore

Cornwell, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0062237845 / ISBN 13: 9780062237842

Published by Harper, 2014

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Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What I Had Before I Had You: A Haunting Dual Timeline Tale of Magical Realism, Family Secrets, and a Psychic Mother's Legacy on the Jersey Shore
• Publisher: Harper
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062237845
• ISBN 13: 9780062237842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore.

Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, disappears. Olivia’s search for him sparks tender and painful memories of her past—of her fiercely loving and secretive mother, Myla, an erratic and beautiful psychic, and the discovery of heartbreaking secrets that shattered her world.

About the Author

Sarah Cornwell grew up in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Her fiction has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Gulf Coast, and Hunger Mountain, among others, and her screen- writing has been honored with a Humanitas Prize. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Sarah has worked as an investigator of police misconduct, an MCAT tutor, a psychological research interviewer, and a toy seller. She lives in Los Angeles.