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Forget me not, a novel, Alexandra Oliva

eng

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fiction

Forget me not

1221016758

Alexandra Oliva

a novel

"A woman whose name shouldn't be Linda stands inside the locked front door of her apartment, listening. Footsteps: a neighbor, walking. Linda knows her neighbors only from names on lobby mailboxes and glances through the peephole, doesn't care to meet them, can't chance being known. She gives the footsteps enough time to reach the elevator. To press the button, to step in and begin their descent. Then she unlocks the door, exhales the breath she was hiding from the passerby, and steps out onto the hallway's checkered carpet"--, Provided by publisherAs a child, Linda Russell was left to raise herself in rural Washington. When she witnesses something she wasn't meant to see, she abandons her home. But her escape becomes a different kind of trap: she is thrust into the modern world, a world she was never prepared for. Years later, living in Seattle, she is hounded by the society she is forced to inhabit. A fire at her childhood home forces Linda back to the property, sparking a series of events that will endanger her life-- while challenging her understanding of family, memory, and the world itself. -- adapted from jacket