Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, St Martin's Press, for the opportunity to read this book - I loved it!
I apparently am on a roll with books about memory - just finished The Forgetting Time and then read All is Not Forgotten!
This was such a uniquely-written thriller - not sure I've ever read anything written in such a similar fashion. The basic premise of the story is that a teenage girl is brutally raped at a party (warning - definitely descriptions of rape if that's a trigger for anyone). She is given a new drug at the hospital that promises to erase the memory of that night - and it does. However, the rape also affected her parents in very different ways. Enter a psychologist who believes that memories need to be remembered and dealt with in order to move on.
The way the story is written is what pulls you in. The story is told by an at-first undisclosed narrator. He tells the story but also interjects lots of background and what feels like unimportant information and characters as he's doing so. Then each of the main characters tells their story in different paragraphs as it is being narrated. Hard to describe but suffice it to say that it pulls you in and makes you go in so many different directions.
I really liked this book and highly recommend it!
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