Heartbreaking Memories

Description: Dive into novels exploring memory and trauma's fracturing powers for some unexpected (and thoroughly rewarding) endings.

In The Sense of an Ending, the intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

The God of Small Things likewise takes on big themes, as the brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

Consists of: The Sense of an Ending (Like New), The God of Small Things (Well Read)