num_pages: 319
description: Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship.
language: English
title: The Memory Artists
titlecomplete: The Memory Artists
genres: Psychology, Literary Fiction, Novels, Drama, Fiction, Disease, Canada, Contemporary, Unfinished
ratings_count: 1197
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Canadian Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin