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In Missing Parts, a powerful and thought-provoking novel, the unbreakable bond of friendship is tested when Lacey Pierce encounters her childhood best friend, Mimi Faraday, in a Boston homeless shelter. The story delves into the complex factors that contribute to resilience in the face of mental illness and life's challenges, exploring why some individuals thrive while others struggle. Lacey and Mimi's story begins in a charming New England town during the transformative 1960s and 70s, where they attend a prestigious prep school. After Mimi's wedding to Chapin, the couple embarks on a life of community service in Newfoundland, while Lacey joins the Peace Corps in Africa, all young, idealistic, and full of promise. Fast forward to the summer of 1995, when Lacey's world is shaken by the discovery of Mimi among the homeless at a soup kitchen in a Boston cathedral. After a quarter-century in Newfoundland, Mimi has returned to Boston, destitute and living in a halfway house for abused women in Cambridge. The novel masterfully traces the parallel journeys of these two women over the intervening decades, revealing the twists and turns that led them to their current circumstances. Missing Parts is a standalone fiction that explores the enduring power of friendship, the impact of life's choices, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Through Lacey and Mimi's story, readers are invited to contemplate the complex interplay of factors that shape our lives and the lives of those we hold dear.

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Diana B. Roberts, known as Dina, has been a professional fundraiser for more than three decades. She has held positions of responsibility for a number of prominent non-profit institutions in Boston, including The Boys & Girls Club of Boston, The YMCA of Greater Boston, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Gore Place Society, and Milton Academy, of which she is a graduate. Earlier, she served as a speech writer in the Federal Government in Washington, D.C.; feature editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo's largest English newspaper; and as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Tunisia, North Africa. Diana holds a BA in communications from Drake University. She studied literary criticism in grad school at Hunter College. Diana and her husband, Bob Bray, share five children and four grandchildren and live in Diana's hometown, Milton, Massachusetts.

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