The memories come on in grayscale, black and white but with the full weight of actual memories.
There are other spouses, other children, other choices made - sometimes better, sometimes worse. Ann Voss Peters falls 40 stories to her death, but just before she does, she tells Barry that she is suffering from False Memory Syndrome - an emerging neurological disease in which sufferers are suddenly afflicted with vivid, encompassing memories of lives they never lived. It starts like this: It is 2018 and NYPD detective Barry Sutton fails to talk a jumper off a ledge. Being that guy, over and over, his books like a perfect distillation of all those late-night, chemically altered conversations that seemed so important once upon a time.Īnd his new book, Recursion? Man, it's a good one. Who always said the most fascinating things. You remember that guy from college, sophomore year? The one that was always there at the bar, on the strange nights when it felt like you could hold off last call just by talking fast enough and thinking big enough? He was the one you'd find yourself listening to at 3am, sitting on the floor, weed and cheap beer twining together in your head as he spun out some bonkers theory about perception, psychology, memory, reality. Here's the thing you gotta know about Blake Crouch. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Recursion Author Blake Crouch
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