When Eleanor Chen returns to her childhood home after her mother's death, she discovers a hidden notebook filled with fragmented recollections—some true, some imagined. As she pieces the entries together, Eleanor begins to question her own memories: Did the summer by the lake really happen? Was her father's departure as sudden as she remembers? Blurring the line between remembering and inventing, the novel follows three generations of women whose pasts continuously rewrite themselves. On Memory and Reminiscence is a poignant meditation on how we construct ourselves from what we choose to remember—and what we dare to forget.
