Starting Today – Bookstagram Tour
Map of a Heart: A Memoir by Jacque Gorelick
18th – 27th February
We’re honoured to be kicking off today’s US Book Tour for Map of a Heart: A Memoir by Jacque Gorelick.
Over the next ten days, our incredible #LBTCrew will be sharing their reviews of this deeply moving and powerful memoir that explores identity, motherhood, belonging, resilience and what it truly means to build a family.
Published yesterday on February 17th, this unforgettable memoir is already resonating with readers who value honesty, heart and hard-won hope.
If you are drawn to true stories of strength in the face of uncertainty, this is one to add to your reading list.
📖 About the Book
Title: Map of a Heart: A Memoir
Author: Jacque Gorelick
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 292
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
Blurb
After losing her mother at eight, Jacque Gorelick spends her childhood moving between temporary homes, searching for 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 with a frantic 911 call, when her husband collapses on a jogging trail.
What follows is a harrowing stretch in an ICU waiting room. While advocating for her comatose husband’s life, caring for a newborn, navigating complicated family dynamics, and confronting the ghosts of her fractured childhood, Jacque must find a way forward.
Map of a Heart is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to build a life when the foundation was broken from the start. For anyone who has ever wondered what truly makes a family, this memoir offers an answer rooted in resilience, hope and unconditional love.
✍️ About the Author
Jacque Gorelick is a former elementary school teacher who later became a freelance writer. After growing up in a fractured childhood, she pursued degrees in psychology and education at San Francisco State University and has long been fascinated by how family shapes us — and how we ultimately choose to define it for ourselves.
Her essays exploring identity, motherhood and belonging have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, HuffPost and many others.
A California native, Jacque now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area beside a creek under redwood trees with her husband, two sons and a wonderful collection of rescue animals.
Website: www.jacquegorelick.com
🗓️ Tour Schedule
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18th February
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19th February
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20th February
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21st February
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22nd February
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23rd February
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24th February
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25th February
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26th February
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27th February
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🛒 Buy Links
🇬🇧 – Buy on Amazon UK
🇺🇸 – Buy on Amazon US
📖 – Add on GoodReads
We are so grateful to our US tour family for sharing this courageous and heartfelt memoir over the next ten days.
If you’re looking for a story about loss, love, rebuilding and redefining what family means, keep watching the grid from today.
Because sometimes the map to belonging is drawn not in certainty — but in courage. 💜
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