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“Memory —by its very nature unreliable—is what allows us to retroactively create the blueprints of our lives, because it is often impossible to make sense of our lives when we‘re inside them, when the narratives are still unfolding.”
Hauntingly beautiful, with a “just-right” ending…🩵🩵🩵
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pickAs Charles Marlow weathers the struggle of supporting his severely autistic son, he reflects on a formative year of elementary school when he became both a standout pupil and a friend to a special needs kid in his class. Add a pair of crumbling marriages, a student‘s perceptive senior project, a nun with dementia, an unexpected twist, and a serendipitous reunion - you get this strange and wonderful book. I LOVED how Kallos brought it all together.
Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest. Underrated novel with amazing twists
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pickThis book is amazing! I couldn't put it down. The ending was totally unexpected and beautiful.
pickDid anyone else read this? It was a surprisingly complex, well written, and thoughtful book about diseases that take language from us and the power of nonverbal communication. I thoroughly enjoyed Kallos's writing, but it didn't get much buzz last summer.
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