Forgetting Time
2017 • 368 pages
Ratings8
Average rating3.6
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Ratings8
Average rating3.6
Janie's son is her world, and it breaks her heart that he has nightmares. That he's terrified of water. That he sometimes pushes her away and screams that he wants his real mother. That it's getting worse and worse and no-one seems to be able to help. In desperation, she turns to someone who might have an answer - but it may not be one she's ready to hear. It may also mean losing the one thing she loves more than anything. Noah.
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Really, unexpectedly good with a full breadth of complex emotions - longing, grief, confusion, but also joy, contentedness, and love. It's a difficult book to describe without giving it all away but well worth a read.
This book was exactly what I needed this week - it grabbed me and carried me along for the ride! The storyline intrigued me, and the writing made it easy to lose myself in the book and eager to find out what happened next. Thinking about reincarnation is something that gets more complex the deeper I think about it, and the author does a good job of highlighting some ‘what about's and ‘what if's as she concludes the novel. Great book and I can't wait to discuss with book club!
This engaging novel relies heavily on the work of Dr. Jim Tucker, author of Life Before Life and Return to Life, both of which explore cases of children who remember past lives. I personally don't believe in life after death and certainly don't believe in reincarnation, and yet . . . it is very hard to come up with any other explanation for the cases Tucker examines.
And in this novel, we have such a case. A boy born in Brooklyn has memories he can't possibly have and his mother turns to a child psychologist who happens to research cases of reincarnation for help in “curing” her son. While the book is a little sentimental for some readers' tastes, it's still fascinating and thought provoking.
See my full comments here: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
