{"id":1211,"date":"2025-07-21T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:52:39","slug":"that-very-place-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/that-very-place-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"THAT VERY PLACE is almost here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people you\u2019ll meet in my new story collection, <em>That Very Place<\/em>, find themselves in places where 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, stirring turmoil and compelling them to confront the damage they\u2019ve inflicted and the pain they\u2019ve carried for too long. They must face the direction their lives have taken and the choices left to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\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, middle-aged niece that she is in fact her mother. But will her confession come too late?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 At a wedding in a garishly decorated Laundromat in Queens, a young stock analyst wavers in her decision to give up her child for adoption, knowing that unless she does the child\u2019s father will leave her.<\/p>\n\n\n\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 who may be the mother he\u2019s lost but finds instead what may be the gateway to another life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The familiar in <em>That Very Place<\/em> is laced with something unruly, something that simply shouldn\u2019t be happening. Though the characters don\u2019t know where these events will lead them, they must respond. What awaits may be a truth they failed to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That Very Place<\/em> reaches bookstores on September 9. You can preorder now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1963115465\/\">Amazon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/that-very-place-mary-ann-mcguigan\/22207764?ean=9781963115468&amp;next=t&amp;next=t\">Bookshop.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people you\u2019ll meet in my new story collection, That Very Place, find themselves in places where 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, stirring turmoil and compelling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}