The Book of Memory Gaps

author: Cecilia Ruiz

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.50

book published: 2015

rating: 4

read at: 2015/03/11

date added: 2015/03/11

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'The Book of Memory Gaps' by Cecilia Ruiz falls into strange categories. It's a picture book, but for grownups. It's funny, and poignant. It's a book of quirky vignettes.



The book explores different characters, all with seemingly Russian names as they cope with different kinds of memory loss. There is a boy wandering around with a bouquet of silverware. There is a sailor who returns every night to his wife, but in his mind, he's been gone a long time. There is a woman who is bad at remembering faces, but good at making perfume. This goes on and on. Different names. Different quirks of the human mind.



When I started reading, I wasn't sure if this was making fun of memory and mental illness, but when it was done, I found it more a celebration of what makes us human. We all have strange tricks that our minds play on us. I loved the illustrations, and I found the book funny and moving. It's rather short with only 64 pages and many of those blank (like our memories can be, I suppose), but it might make an interesting gift book for that birthday you forgot, or for yourself when you have an all too human moment of memory gaps.



I received a review copy of this ebook from Penguin Group, Blue Rider Press, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this very nice ebook.





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