Well, all these little bits made me add the source to my wish list.
"But he had realized he must start with the leftovers, with what had not been written, to move toward things that had not been recorded but persisted and twinkled in his memory like dying lights. Minuscule events that had mysteriously survived the nighttime of forgetting. They are visions, flashes sent from the past, images that endure, isolated, without frames, without context, cut loose, and we can’t forget them, right?"
from the library...
Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano; translated from the French by Damion Searls
Good, but I didn't like it as much as some of his other work. Maybe because it's set in Nice, not Paris?
The Little Stranger (Kindle Edition) by Sarah Waters
Set in England shortly after the end ow World War 2. Kind of a Gothic novel with mysterious things happening in a crumbling manor house. I kept at it, and was sort of rewarded in the end.
Quickening Fields by Pattiann Rogers
These fifty-three lyrical poems made me reconsider the world around me with an altered vision.
read online...
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Margarita Engle, Rudy Gutierrez (Illustrations)
A middle-grade poem about the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots (1943). Excellent.
Read free online at Rivited.
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