Story Of Forgetting, The

Plot

At seventy, Abel Haggard is a hermit, resigned to memories of the family he has lost, living in isolation on his family_s farm amid the encroaching sprawl of Dallas. Hundreds of miles to the south in suburban Austin, fifteen-year-old Seth Waller is devastated when his mother_s increasingly eccentric behaviour is diagnosed as a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer_s. He begins an _empirical investigation_ to uncover the truth about her genetic history, and to understand the roots of this terrible disease. Though neither one knows of the other_s existence, Seth and Abel share a unique tradition: as children, both were told stories of Isadora, a fantastical land free from the sorrows of memory.Spanning continents and generations, The Story of Forgetting is the tale of how history became destiny; how the imagination can transform reality; and how loss, however devastating, can ultimately forge profound meaning. A heartbreaking and inspiring debut, it is the story of the complexity, the pain and the bliss of forgetting.