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Rosen, Lev AC

The Memory Wall

361 pp. | Knopf | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-101-93323-7 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-1-101-93324-4 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-101-93325-1
(4) 4-6 Narratives alternate between an online role-playing fantasy game and the real-life trauma of twelve-year-old biracial boy Nick, whose German mother has early-onset Alzheimer's. Rosen explores magical thinking and grief as Nick learns he cannot save his mother through gaming. Despite some overwrought similes ("She has eyes like huge, soft hills"), the story is moving and impressively multilayered.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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