The Memory Keeper by Laura Nadworny - 1999-09

New York: D'Arcy Liat, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. (Signed by Author) The Memory Keeper is a fictional memoir, a layering of story, of forgotten memories remembered, of new memories created. Retold by Jesse Abraham, it i s the passages in the life of this contemporary New York City-born artist " outsider;" it is her journey to identity through the minefield of lost stor y. Descended from Eastern European shtetl Jews who arrived in America belie ving that the future, and not the past, was what one provides one's childre n, she is disconnected from her roots culturally as well as religiously! An d she is, throughout this book, divining works of art inside her mind to co unter those brick walls she seems forever to be smashing in to.... A great collectible signed first edition.