![]() ![]() Another element of memory is that it is fallible and fungible. The past is exquisitely miserable, and holding onto it tightly makes the two of them feel alive. They seem stuck in it, unable to fully move forward. Danny and Maeve cannot help themselves from obsessively reminiscing about their past even when it is painful and unhealthy to do so. Memory and nostalgia permeate every page of this novel. Patchett explores how the two siblings deal with this trauma in both successful and unsuccessful ways. Their inability to fully grieve their father before they are tossed out from the only home they've ever known with practically nothing to their name is an emotional burden that they only barely slough off, and not for many decades. They are comfortable for a time, but when they lose their father and Andrea throws them out, they are left with practically nothing. ![]() Their mother leaves them, their father is often distant, and they gain a stepmother who more or less hates them. Danny and Maeve have a tough childhood, to say the least. ![]()
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