{"id":1220,"date":"2025-07-23T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=1220"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:42:08","slug":"that-very-place","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/book\/that-very-place\/","title":{"rendered":"That Very Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond the Familiar<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.\u201d<\/em> \u2014T.S. Eliot<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people you\u2019ll meet in these stories find themselves in places they\u2019d rather not be. Each is bound by a connection they cannot break: an unwanted child, an unloving parent, or the haunting echoes of what could have been. But trouble long avoided brings upheaval, compelling them to see the damage they\u2019ve inflicted and the pain they\u2019ve carried for too long. They must face the choices left to them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 In the boxy, drab room of a nursing home, a woman with advancing dementia longs to tell her unsuspecting niece that she is in fact her mother. But will her confession come too late?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 At a wedding in a garishly decorated Laundromat, a young stock analyst wavers in her decision to give up her baby for adoption, knowing the child\u2019s father will leave her if she doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Waiting to cross 7<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, an aimless college student gets a glimpse of a homeless woman. Has he found the mother he\u2019s lost? Or the gateway to another life?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>That Very Place,<\/em> the familiar is laced with something unruly, something that simply shouldn\u2019t be happening. No one knows where these events will lead them. What awaits may be a truth they failed to see.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1338,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1220","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-adult"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}