The Story of Forgetting
What:
The Story of Forgetting
Where:
McGills, Ground Floor, CPA Centre, 307 Queen St, Brisbane
How much:
$32.95
Contact:
3221 9939
Ah, books; the perfect Mothers' Day present. In the eyes of the recipient, they make you look intelligent, thoughtful, and they're easy to wrap. But don't just trundle down to Kmart to pick up the new Danielle Steel, because your mum is an intelligent being and, unlike your average Kmart customer, can read. Nonfiction is also a minefield; as good as that misery memoir about the blind Albanian sex slave looks, it's just too depressing, and if your mum reads it she will never leave the house again.
FourThousand recommends The Story of Forgetting, a gorgeous first novel from young American writer Stefan Merrill Block. Despite his son-of-rock star name, he has constructed a wonderful story of love, memory and belonging, with echoes of Jeffrey Eugenides' brilliant Middlesex. Sure, the story deals with a particularly nasty strain of early-onset Alzheimer's, but the two main characters, an ageing Dallas hermit and a precocious fifteen year-old, are painted with humour, pathos and believability as they both search for meaning behind the disease that has robbed them of a person they loved. Your mum will also love it. If not, Kmart is open till 5.
Format: Book
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
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