Toward amnesia
by Sarah Van Arsdale
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In this poetic and arresting first novel, the protagonist, a marine biologist, is left by her lover and best friend of five years. Utterly bereft and no longer able to take consolation from the things that once absorbed her, she cleans out her savings account, trades in her sensible car for a 1950 Chevy Futura, and heads cross-country without a word to anyone.
Inspired by her newfound anonymity, she begins to cultivate a whole alien persona: she writes with her other hand, takes her coffee black, and pays for an abandoned grocery cart of odd-looking canned foods.
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Lesbians, Fiction, Amnesia, Psychology, Women, Man-woman relationships, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, generalPlaces
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Toward Amnesia 6-copy Counter Unit
January 1, 1997, Riverhead Trade
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Devastated when her lover of five years leaves her for another woman, a young marine biologist heads across the country, resolving to recreate her persona through cultivating a unique kind of amnesia.
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