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It’s Jake’s birthday. He is sitting in a little airplane, being flown in the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life – his childhood, his matrimony, his work, his passions. Now he is in his mid-sixties, and he isn’t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his better half, his son is within prison, and he is about to lose his history. Jake has Alzheimer’s.
As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold to his personal storyline, to his memory and identity, however they become progressively more elusive and unreliable. What occurred to his princess? Is she alive, or long useless? And just why exactly is his kid in prison? What proceeded to go so incorrect in his life? There is a cherry tree once, and a yellowish dress, but just what do they indicate? As Jake fights the inevitable dying of the light, the main element occasions of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until lately seemed solid simple truth is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he’ll have the ability to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory space of love, or almost nothing?
From the first sentence to the previous, The Wilderness keeps us in its grasp. This is writing of remarkable power and beauty.
