First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros

Every Tuesday, I'll be posting the opening paragraph (sometimes maybe a few) of a book I decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s). Feel free to grab the banner and play along.  This week's selection is a book I've been curious about. 
 

 An Uncommon Education; Elizabeth Percer

Harper Collins - May 2012

"On the day after my mother's death, I returned to 83 Beals Street for the first time in fifteen years.  I had stolen something from there when I was almost nine years old and kept it long after my father was well again and it was clear that my mother was in the final stages of her decline.  I suppose it was one of many talismans, real and imagined, I began collecting around that age to help me believe that what I told myself just might be true.  Perhaps the strongest of these convictions, and the one it took the longest to let go of, was that believing that I needed to save those I loved from harm also meant that I could."

 Have you read this one? Would you continue?