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4.0
Jacob, a widowed architect, is slowly losing his memory due to Alzheimer's, and this story manages to portray his struggle to keep hold of his life while also showing pictures of that life. The unreliability of the narrator is, in many ways, the point of the story: not only is he forgetting, but what he remembers is always, of course, subjective, so the whole question of "what really happened" is rendered moot by the realization that whatever actually happened is only in his head anyway--memory is all we have--and that someone else's version of "what really happened" may be quite different. While there are some truly painful passages, as Jake's frustration with his condition is shown in detail, overall the story is hard to put down. A lovely meditation on life, memory, family, and love.
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