The Memory Palace - A Memoir
by Mira Bartok
A memoir indeed. An author's mediative memoir of her life with a dysfunctional family that can win a prize for the worst. Her father depressed leaves when she is a small child, her mother a schizophrenic attempts to warp Mira and her sister's minds while living with her anti-Semitic cruel abusive grandfather. Mira's grandmother is Jewish her grandfather is not. He eventually dies slowly eaten away with cancer.
Mira's mother goes on to live mainly on the street, a homeless distraught woman hiding away from gamma waves and people to talk to her. Mira has a brain injury and is almost homeless herself. In the end, her sister and her make some sort of peace with their mother after hiding away from her for 17 years.
Sad and educational about the state of our ill and homeless in this country under the dictatorship of several presidents - and us...
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