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Issues of memory, chosen family, history, loneliness, and love shape Vuong's novel, and the author forces

It's January 1889, and Veronica and her natural historian beau Stoker are working on a memorial exhibition

Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories

When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures

like controlling the past--those who dole out the food reserves also control access to taste-inspired memories

present-day scenes with Yara's journals (made up of often brutally painful, occasionally momentarily lovely memories

Haunted by the past and threatened in the present, Gretel shapes the novel with disturbing memories from

Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time

The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories

Isabelle can't stop searching for her son, but she begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories

She struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present, the shallow facades with the gritty

unbroken bond; and I'm listening to The Best of Me, David Sedaris's most recent collection of oddball memories Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, frequently oddball memories and mining them for poignancy and also

The vivid midcentury memories are a highlight. behaviors are brought to light and shake the foundations of the families and of their treasured collective memories

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories her parents' accounts hold merit, and begins to wonder with horror whether she can trust even her own memories

multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie Witch who holds others' memories

on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories

She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.

It asks us to consider who sets and shapes our shared national memory and what and who gets left out.

hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories

Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories

When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures

His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the

This, as always, is only one version of the memory. Funny, how truth changes in the telling.

Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,

Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep

Cult Classic is a sometimes darkly funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control with a

Maneka struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present and the glittery facades with

Fraser grew up in the Pacific Northwest with firsthand memories of arsenic, lead, and copper contamination

She begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories surrounding Mason's death--but she can't

What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of? What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of?

scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories

Bobby's recounted memories don't paint her as anything close to a saint; she recounts the evidence of

arrives in town, digging into Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories

known to Harrow; characters lie steadily to each other; and Harrow is an unreliable narrator, with memory

The memories are beginning to slowly shift back into focus, but he needs them now.

Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler ...you may have heard that goldfish have a three-second memory How can such a small fish hold on to the memory of the snaking path of a maze for three months?

Whose memory is solid?

ICYMI: This is excellent, layered historical fiction with memorable characters and a great big story

Kieran's father is suffering from memory issues and wanders at night, and his mother is readying to move

There are no memories to anchor our relationship.

I love Strout's books, so I was delighted to dive back into the many reflections, vulnerabilities, memories

referred to in the book's title, there is a captivating, dark, in-between world of floating, nebulous memories

Cult Classic is a funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control from the author of I Was

He holds vivid memories of life in 1900s London--and he holds a postcard a century old, sent to him from

thought during certain moments in the past and her emphasis on examining tiny details of situations and memories

Wilf, whose wife is losing her memories at the same time vivid memories of past events come rushing back

second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed existence—but the haunting memories

pacing was slow--detailing Lucy and Sam's (and their parents' long-ago) long journeys and extended memories

When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel