Mira Bartok to sign acclaimed memoir THE MEMORY PALACE
Mira
Bartok will visit the store to sign her highly acclaimed
memoir THE MEMORY PALACE (now in
paperback). This haunting, beautiful book tells the story of Mira and her
sister Rachel’s fraught childhood with their schizophrenic mother. As young
adults they are forced break their relationship with her and change their
names. But her presence is always in their minds. After a terrible accident,
and struggling with her own recovery from trauma, Mira was confronted with a need to recontextualize her
life—she had to relearn how to paint, read, and interact with the outside
world. In her search for a way back to her lost self, she reached out to the
homeless shelter where she believed her mother was living and discovered that
Norma was dying. Mira and her sister shared an extraordinary reconciliation
with their mother that none of them had thought possible. THE MEMORY PALACE is a breathtaking literary
memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for
forgiveness among family. Through stunning prose and original art, Bartok explores the connections
between mother and daughter, connections that cannot be broken no matter how
much exists—or is lost—between them.
Link to Downloadable Reading Group Guide: http://pages.simonandschuster.com/memorypalace
- Street:
- 975 Paoli Pike
- City:
- West Chester ,
- Province:
- Pennsylvania
- Postal Code:
- 19380
- Country:
- United States
