"A powerful story of family and connection that is just as fun as it is heartbreaking. I didn't want the story to end." -- Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost and Everything After Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself.WhenPaige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her fatheris a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as shedigs deeper into her mother's past and her own feelings of being the odd childout growing up, Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. Couldthis be why Paige never felt like she fit in her family, and why her motheralways seemed to keep her at an arm's length? And what does it mean for Paige'smemories of her father, a man she idolized and whose death she is stillgrieving? Backin 1975, Betsy Kaplan, Paige's mom, is a straightlaced sophomore at theUniversity of Kansas. When her sweet but boring boyfriend disappoints her, Betsy decides she wants more out of life, and is tired of playing it safe.Enter Andy Abrams, the golden boy on campus with a potentially devastatingsecret. After their night together has unexpected consequences, Betsy isdetermined to bury the truth and rebuild a stable life for her unborn child, whatever the cost. WhenPaige can't get answers from her mother, she goes looking for the only otherperson who was there that night. The more she learns about what happened, themore she sees her unflappable, distant mother as a real person faced with animpossible choice. But will it be enough to mend their broken relationship? Toldin dual timelines, Little Pieces of Me examines identity and how the waywe define ourselves changes (or not) through our life experiences.