Jacobson, Howard
Summary: At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACTolkin, Michael
Summary: "The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLAvery, Lara
Summary: When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016