num_pages: 152
description: This is the fourth volume of the family Northway series written by Marshall Terry. In the novella THE MEMORIALIST, which is accompanied by four short stories, Mark Northway keeps doing memorial services as friends, family and colleagues pass on, all the while facing his own mortality and, as a "memorialist," visiting the lives of those dear to him who have departed but whose spirits remain alive to him. In the four short stories accompanying the novella, Mark Northway receives his grandfather Tom Northway's gift to him of storytelling; witnesses his great-grandfather's experience of civil war and prison; tracks his father's choice to be true to himself; and finally and happily realizes his own true place and identity. These are stories of love, faith and caring, stories which understand at root the complexities of living and dying, of being human.
language: English
title: The Memorialist
titlecomplete: The Memorialist
publisher: Three Forks Press