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Wowza I loved this!!

One day Hassan knocks on Maggie’s door and tells her that her husband Stanley, whom lives in a nursing home, is not suffering from Alzheimer’s but rather that his memories are being stolen. Maggie is to abscond from the nursing home with Stanley and then delve into her husband’s memories with the aid of Hassan, seemingly to save all mankind. But Hassan is not who he seems to be.

We jump back and forth between modern times where we’re reading Maggie and Hassan’s interactions in an interview type format, and Stanley’s youth in the 1950s onward. It’s captivating. Who would have ever thought of memories being akin to time travel? Fascinating concept.

Touted as a novel for fans of Blake Crouch and I would agree! This is the kind of book you think about constantly when you have to do crappy adult things like, go to work. Sitting in a meeting you’re wondering, when can I get back to reading?? It pulls you in from page one. It’s a character heavy sci-fi too, which I adore. We’re not just drowning in science babble, in fact there’s very little of that, but we get to learn about Stanley, his childhood, his traumas, the beginning of him and his relationship with Maggie.

There’s twists and turns and parts you want to read twice to really wrap your head around it. The concept of deep time, the before-past, the time-beyond-time...this is the kind of book where you stare at a blank wall for a bit once you’re finished. I need to check out this author’s backlist!