Isbn: 9798242540064 - Even If the Memory Fades: a Fictional Novel (4 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the small upstate New York town of Dolgeville, Ginny Hale grows up believing that endurance is a form of virtue. Raised in a household shaped by silence, discipline, and unspoken expectation, she learns early how to be useful, how to comply, and how to carry what others cannot. When illness alters her future and marriage becomes a site of control and violence, Ginny's life narrows to survival. Motherhood deepens both her love and her fear, binding her to a man whose charm masks cruelty and whose instability threatens everything she is trying to protect. Leaving is not dramatic. It is dangerous, quiet, and delayed-until the cost of staying becomes unmistakable. Even if the Memory Fades traces Ginny's life from constraint to escape, from endurance to choice. After she leaves, she rebuilds slowly-through work, care, and the steady work of raising her children in safety. Years later, as dementia begins to loosen her grasp on time and detail, what remains is not trauma, but love, dignity, and the legacy of a woman who broke a cycle. Told in restrained, intimate prose, Even if the Memory Fades is a novel about survival transformed into self-preservation, about motherhood as resistance, and about what endures when memory itself begins to fade. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the small upstate New York town of Dolgeville, Ginny Hale grows up believing that endurance is a form of virtue. Raised in a household shaped by silence, discipline, and unspoken expectation, she learns early how to be useful, how to comply, and how to carry what others cannot. When illness alters her future and marriage becomes a site of control and violence, Ginny's life narrows to survival. Motherhood deepens both her love and her fear, binding her to a man whose charm masks cruelty and whose instability threatens everything she is trying to protect. Leaving is not dramatic. It is dangerous, quiet, and delayed-until the cost of staying becomes unmistakable. Even if the Memory Fades traces Ginny's life from constraint to escape, from endurance to choice. After she leaves, she rebuilds slowly-through work, care, and the steady work of raising her children in safety. Years later, as dementia begins to loosen her grasp on time and detail, what remains is not trauma, but love, dignity, and the legacy of a woman who broke a cycle. Told in restrained, intimate prose, Even if the Memory Fades is a novel about survival transformed into self-preservation, about motherhood as resistance, and about what endures when memory itself begins to fade. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…