{"product_id":"somewhere-in-my-past-every-goodbye-leaves-a-wing-behind-9798195158422","title":"Somewhere In My Past: Every goodbye leaves a wing behind","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nelson Mesias\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the quiet halls of a senior home on Vancouver Island, night-shift worker \u003cb\u003eNico\u003c\/b\u003e moves through his routines with gentle steadiness-brewing tea, checking hallways, and carrying the weight of an ocean between himself and his mother in the Philippines. But everything changes when he meets \u003cb\u003eAgatha\u003c\/b\u003e, an elderly resident whose life holds the echoes of war, migration, love, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Agatha shares her stories-of fleeing Europe during World War II, of painting birds to survive grief, of the son she lost to silence-an unexpected companionship forms between them. When she chooses to pursue \u003cb\u003eMedical Assistance in Dying (MAID)\u003c\/b\u003e, Nico becomes the quiet witness to her final days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her passing, Nico is left with her last painting: a bird in motion, wings open, returning home. Grieving, he begins to draw for the first time-birds rising, resting, flying, leaving, arriving-each one a step toward healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a new resident named \u003cb\u003eElena\u003c\/b\u003e arrives, echoing Agatha in gentle, uncanny ways, Nico discovers that endings can also be beginnings, and that the people we lose often leave us with wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tender novel about migration, memory, chosen family, and the quiet work of healing, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomewhere In My Past\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of the unexpected connections that save us, the art that carries us, and the ways we learn to come home to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969544372375,"sku":"9798195158422","price":1126.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195158422.webp?v=1782922277","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/somewhere-in-my-past-every-goodbye-leaves-a-wing-behind-9798195158422","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}