http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/04-01-12-fotofest-show-asks-what-is-memory/
When I was in Chicago a few weeks ago I met a woman, Mira Bartok, whose memoir, The Memory Palace, just won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Bartok's book chronicles her life as the child of a mother with schizophrenia, a mental illness that robs its victim not only of a grasp of the present, but also of the past. Bartok suffers a a brain injury at 40 and takes her reader on the often painful journey of reconstructing the memories from her life. Her book centers on the idea that memory is fluid. Everytime we retrieve a memory it changes, even for those who don't suffer from a memory debilitating illness.
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