{"id":659,"date":"2011-06-12T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/?page_id=659"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:47:11","slug":"house-of-cleaving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/?page_id=659","title":{"rendered":"House of Cleaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/House-of-Cleaving2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1118\" src=\"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/House-of-Cleaving2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"House of Cleaving, a novel by Melissa Newman\" width=\"186\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/House-of-Cleaving2-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/House-of-Cleaving2.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annie Cleaving watched her young son take his last breath trapped inside the mangled wreckage of her car.<\/p>\n<p>The drunk driver walked away without a scratch. A year later breast cancer took Annie&#8217;s mother, a tender and genteel woman.<\/p>\n<p>As a means to escape painful memories Annie attempts to sell the old Cleaving house, leaving the only home she has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Only then she discovers the botched deed and her only choice, to find her mother&#8217;s siblings and convince each to release their claims.<\/p>\n<p>From crazy Aunt Veda, who thinks a televangelist is sending her secret love messages, to Uncle Asher who has given up his Wall Street career and joined a hippie commune, Annie is thrust into a bizarre new world where it seems the Cleaving family history has been altered.<\/p>\n<p>Her journey reveals the many secrets woven throughout the Cleaving family, including a murder, involve her mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-Cleaving-Melissa-Newman\/dp\/1611600677\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364664132&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=house+of+cleaving\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/house-of-cleaving-melissa-newman\/1103504748?ean=9781611600674&amp;itm=1&amp;usri=house+of+cleaving\"><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9781611600674-1\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/p\/House-Cleaving\/Melissa-Newman\/9781611600674?id=5646636566756\"><strong>Books-A-Million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/House-of-Cleaving-ebook\/dp\/B005ALVYKO\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364664132&amp;sr=8-1\"><strong>Kindle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/house-of-cleaving-melissa-newman\/1103504748?ean=9781611600667\"><strong>Nook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author-signed copies of Sister Blackberry and House of Cleaving<\/strong>\u00a0can be purchased at Joseph-B<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fictionwise.com\/ebooks\/b102340\/?si=0\"><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"JB_Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/JB_Logo1.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>eth Booksellers in Lexington, Kentucky. If you cannot go to this location, please e-mail <a href=\"mailto:melissa@melissanewman.net\">melissa@melissanewman.net<\/a> and request an author-signed copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Annie Cleaving watched her young son take his last breath trapped inside the mangled wreckage of her car. The drunk driver walked away without a scratch. A year later breast cancer took Annie&#8217;s mother, a tender and genteel woman. As a means to escape painful memories Annie attempts to sell the old Cleaving house, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":663,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/1281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}