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In the small city of Intervale in northern Maine, on a rainy night, an unknown woman appears on a bridge. "Blue," as she comes to be known, has complete retrograde amnesia. Her condition provides a lens through which author Sarah Van Arsdale examines questions of identity, isolation, and loss. As the protagonist tries to recover fragments of her memory, she becomes the focus of the obsessions of local resident Rita LaPlatte, who sets about stealthily proving that Blue is her "missing" twin. While in Intervale, Blue comes under the care of Robert Reichman, a psychiatrist who is grappling with his own lost identity as a Jew—a battle that is underscored by his father’s rapidly deteriorating memory loss. Also under the care of Dr. Reichman is Annie Blaise, a psychotic woman housed at the hospital during the harsh winter months after she is arrested for lighting fires by the river. It is Annie who holds the key to the question of both her own identity and Blue’s, an answer not revealed until the book’s last pages.
In the small city of Intervale in northern Maine, on a rainy night, an unknown woman appears on a bridge. "Blue," as she comes to be known, has complete retrograde amnesia. Her condition provides a lens through which author Sarah Van Arsdale examines questions of identity, isolation, and loss. As the protagonist tries to recover fragments of her memory, she becomes the focus of the obsessions of local resident Rita LaPlatte, who sets about stealthily proving that Blue is her "missing" twin. While in Intervale, Blue comes under the care of Robert Reichman, a psychiatrist who is grappling with his own lost identity as a Jew—a battle that is underscored by his father’s rapidly deteriorating memory loss. Also under the care of Dr. Reichman is Annie Blaise, a psychotic woman housed at the hospital during the harsh winter months after she is arrested for lighting fires by the river. It is Annie who holds the key to the question of both her own identity and Blue’s, an answer not revealed until the book’s last pages.
Winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the novel, this subtle, engaging story entertains while exploring intriguing questions of memory and loss, mystery and revelation, dreaming and waking.
About the Author
Sarah Van Arsdale, who holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College, teaches with the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center in New York City. She is senior staff writer at Designer Monthly Magazine and has published articles in a number of magazines and newspapers, including Publishers Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, was published in 1996 by Riverhead/Putnam. She lives in New York City and Vermont.
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