The Memory Room: A Novel

A shattered woman rebuilds herself from the ruins of childhood trauma, guided by a therapist, the Psalms, and the fractured poetry of Paul Celan

The novel opens with Barbara, who, after remembering incidents of torture at the hands of her father, has quite literally broken down. Found inside a disabled elevator, she is no longer able to function with her new consciousness of these memories—those which are so resistant to understanding. Confronted with this knowledge of evil, she must begin t...