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Published on Aug 02, 2011 | 304 Pages
“Beautiful, brainy, and offbeat” (Entertainment Weekly), a perfect sophisticated summer read.
By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin’s debut novel introduces leading Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Victor Aaron, who spends his days alternating between long hours in the lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He’s preserved their marriage as a perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but compatible souls. Until the day he discovers a series of index cards in Sara’s handwriting that chronicle the major “changes in direction of their marriage.” Suddenly this eminent memory expert finds his faith in memory itself unraveling, and he must, along with his support network of strong women-from his lab assistant to Aunt Betsy, the doddering doyenne of the island where they all live-determine a way to move on.
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By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin’s debut novel introduces leading Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Victor Aaron, who spends his days alternating between long hours in the lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He’s preserved their marriage as a perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but compatible souls. Until the day he discovers a series of index cards in Sara’s handwriting that chronicle the major “changes in direction of their marriage.” Suddenly this eminent memory expert finds his faith in memory itself unraveling, and he must, along with his support network of strong women-from his lab assistant to Aunt Betsy, the doddering doyenne of the island where they all live-determine a way to move on.
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Author
Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of the popular website The Morning News, host of the annual “Tournament of Books.” His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The Nation, on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and he currently writes “The Digital Ramble,” for The Moment, a New York Times blog. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife.
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