This short Booker Prize winner is a subtle examination of how we construct the story of our lives from our memories, and how the story invariably fails to capture the full reality. The subtlety is both the greatest strength of the book and its biggest weakness: strength because the narrator's thoughts are precisely the kinds of ruminations that occur to us all, and weakness because very little actually happens beyond the mundane. (The exception is the twist at the end.)
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