"What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty
A decade of experiences, happy, sad, challenging, life-altering, life-ending, would change who you are, no? Things that happen to us - shape us and our outlook - our approach.
But what if you forgot a decade, misplaced it somehow, thought you and your life were ten years younger? How would you act?
Liane Moriarty addresses these questions and more in her thought-provoking new novel that invariably begs her readers to contemplate who they have become, and why. The most important question though, to me is --- are you proud of that person.
At age 39, the main character Alice Love, has an accident while exercising at her gym. She hits her head, passes out and wakes up thinking she is 10 years younger, suffering from a severe case of amnesia. What a difference a decade can make. Ten years earlier, Alice was over the moon in love with her new husband and expecting their first baby.
Presently, a decade later, she learns that they are divorcing. Alice doesn't recognize herself, the qualities she's adopted over the years and how she interacts with people, including her family.
While some of this may sound trite and somewhat "it's been done already," Ms. Moriarty delivers an enticing story of what time can do, how it can change a person.
The author tacitly asks, "Who are you now, anyway? And do you like who you have become?"
A decade of experiences, happy, sad, challenging, life-altering, life-ending, would change who you are, no? Things that happen to us - shape us and our outlook - our approach.
But what if you forgot a decade, misplaced it somehow, thought you and your life were ten years younger? How would you act?
Liane Moriarty addresses these questions and more in her thought-provoking new novel that invariably begs her readers to contemplate who they have become, and why. The most important question though, to me is --- are you proud of that person.
At age 39, the main character Alice Love, has an accident while exercising at her gym. She hits her head, passes out and wakes up thinking she is 10 years younger, suffering from a severe case of amnesia. What a difference a decade can make. Ten years earlier, Alice was over the moon in love with her new husband and expecting their first baby.
Presently, a decade later, she learns that they are divorcing. Alice doesn't recognize herself, the qualities she's adopted over the years and how she interacts with people, including her family.
While some of this may sound trite and somewhat "it's been done already," Ms. Moriarty delivers an enticing story of what time can do, how it can change a person.
The author tacitly asks, "Who are you now, anyway? And do you like who you have become?"
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