First published 2003
Christopher's twilight years are slipping away. As he sifts through a lifetime of scrapbooks and journals, snippets of forgotten memories resurface. A childhood trauma, a lost love, a career-defining choice - each fragment unlocks a piece of his past. But can he stitch these disparate recollections into a coherent whole before it's too late? "Collected Memories" is a poignant meditation on the elusive nature of the self, and the power of the past to shape - and be shaped by - our present.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, autobiography, contemporary, memoir, biography-memoir, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: Twilight Years
105 pages · Paperback · University of Wisconsin Press