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Simon & Schuster
March 2019
On Sale: March 19, 2019
336 pages
ISBN: 1982102837
EAN: 9781982102838
Kindle: B07GNVXQR5
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Coming of Age | Women's Fiction Contemporary
A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory,
desire, and the imagination from the internationally
bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing
World, Memories of the Future tells the story of
a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in
the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious
neighbor, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her
dilapidated building, S.H., aka “Minnesota,” transcribes her
neighbor’s bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a
notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one
frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a
rescue mission. Forty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her
old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed
novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to
another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts, S.H.
measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year
and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves
across decades. The encounter both collapses time and
reframes its meanings in the present. Elaborately structured, intellectually rigorous, urgently
paced, poignant, and often wildly funny, Memories of the
Future brings together themes that have made Hustvedt
among the most celebrated novelists working today: the
fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of
patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous
borders between sensation and thought, sanity and madness;
and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love,
hunger, and rage.
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