Excerpt from The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Name: The Memory Palace
Rating: 5.0 (5 reviews)
Author: Mira Bartok
ISBN: 9781439183311

The Memory Palace

A Memoir

by Mira Bartok

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First Published:
Jan 11, 2011, 320 pages

Paperback:
Aug 2011, 336 pages

Book Reviewed by:
Elena Spagnolie
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- Biography & Memoir
- USA
- Midwest, USA
- Contemporary
- Generational Sagas
- Adult Books From Child's Perspective
- Coming of Age
- Dealing with Loss
- Strong Women
- Physical & Mental Differences
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He spoke too fast for my brain, using words like fistula, ileostomy, and carcinomatosis. I had no idea what he was talking about. It looked like he was drawing the map of a city as seen from above. Was this what is inside us, these roads and byways, these rotaries and hairpin turns?

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