The Memory Book: A Novel
The Memory Bookfollows a familiar Stokes formula: a modern woman finds spiritual guidance in the past. The heroine is Phoebe Lange, a likable professional who finishes graduate school and makes a long-overdue visit to her grandmother, who raised her. Phoebe then learns some surprising things: her father, who murdered her mother, is about to be paroled; and she had a great-aunt with the same name who died in a car crash on the night of her high-school graduation. In anAlice in Wonderlandtwist, Phoebe has a fall while reading her great-aunt's diary and drops back in time to live out her namesake's final days.The Memory Bookis smoothly written, with well-drawn characters, but Stokes keeps rewritingThe Blue Bottle Club(1999).John MortCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.