The Remembering - Susan Sinnott
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When memory is gone, what is left behind? Award winning author, Susan Sinnott, joins us from her home in Newfoundland to chat about her recent novel,\\xa0The Remembering. The book\\u2014which Lindsay gives five enthusiastic stars\\u2014follows three generations of Newfoundland women as they navigate the triumphs and difficulties of life and explores how memory\\u2014in its many forms\\u2014impacts our lives.\\xa0Susan shares a bit about her writing process and how she creates "mountains of backstory" for her characters, why she chose to explore themes of dementia and memory, what types of books she thinks her characters would read and more.\\xa0
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About The Remembering:
Some memories are treasured, re-read like a favourite book. Some are traumatic and won\\u2019t stay buried. But memories can be unreliable, can fade and mutate. They affect our actions and choices.
Memories of a happy marriage comfort Liz through widowhood, while flashbacks to a devastating sexual assault overwhelm her youngest daughter, Eve. Her middle daughter, Carlie, is building a new life in another country but longing for home is pulling her back, while Ginny, the eldest, takes on everyone?s problems as her own. Eve\\u2019s daughter, Rosie, remembers nothing of her absent father and yearns to track him down against her family\\u2019s wishes.
Then Liz is diagnosed with dementia, and the family\\u2019s resilience is tested as the matriarch begins to falter. If life is all memory, what is left when it\\u2019s gone?
Memory is at the core of all these women\\u2019s lives: elusive, intrusive, helpful or misleading. What\\u2019s revealed is a story about the struggle to maintain a sense of family, home, and self, amidst all life can throw at you.