Bittersweet Memories: A novel - Softcover

Osterkamp, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933826517 ISBN 13: 9781933826516

Publisher: PMI Books, 2017

Synopsis

What if you could push rewind to relive any memory from your past as vividly and accurately as the day it happened?

What days of your life would you choose to live again?

Anne Weller Barnes craves the close family she sees in her mind's eye and in the decades-old family movies. But in Anne's actual family, mysterious and shocking circumstances surrounding a long-ago tragedy have created conflict and cut-off.

When her estranged brother dies and leaves her an invention called the Memory Enhancer that she can use to program her dreams to re-experience old memories as clearly as the day they were made, Anne plunges into her past.

She hopes to recapture the family closeness she remembers, but as she finds herself increasingly caught up in bygone days, she discovers powerful forgotten memories and regrets, and faces family members' anger and distrust.

Anne's anguish builds as she faces her brother's dying wish that she decide whether to release the Memory Enhancer to the world.

Bittersweet Memories is a moving story that explores yearning for the past, the unreliability of memory, and the powerful impact of family secrets.

About this title

From the Author:

In writing this novel, I have drawn on my own family experiences and my own longing to revisit my family's past. My parents died when I was young and they were young (although neither of them was shot), and I and my siblings have felt the impact of that in many ways. I created the Memory Enhancer for my fictional family to help them learn from their pasts, and in the process I learned a lot about myself and remembered much that I had forgotten.
I didn't really think of Bittersweet Memories as a time travel book when I was writing it, because the characters don't go anywhere physically, just mentally. But after hearing from readers, I understand that some see re-experiencing the past as time travel. Maybe you'll think it is, maybe not.

I'm still not sure whether or not the Memory Enhancer would be a good invention, but I expect someone will eventually create it and we will find out.

About the Author:

Lynn Osterkamp is the author of Too Near the Edge, and its sequels Toofar Under, and Too Many Secrets--the mystery novels that gave life toCleo, a Boulder-based grief therapist whose ability to contact deadpeople gets her involved in solving a murder; and Tyler, a dead surferdude who gives Cleo cryptic and often inscrutable advice. Too Near theEdge won a silver medal in the 2007 IPPY Book Awards for best regionalfiction in the west-mountain region. Lynn is also the author of twononfiction books as well as numerous articles, manuals and nationalnewsletters. Her professional experience includes hospital and hospicesocial work, university teaching and research, special education, andlong-term-care ombudsman. She lives in Boulder Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: PMI Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1933826517
• ISBN 13: 9781933826516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250