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Sharon Guskin

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SHARON GUSKIN has been a fellow at Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Ragdale, and has degrees from Yale University and the Columbia University School of the Arts. In addition to writing fiction, she has worked as a writer and producer of documentary films. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. THE FORGETTING TIME is her first novel.

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Sharon Guskin Not long after my children were born, a relative told me about OLD SOULS, a book about Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia and his many ca…moreNot long after my children were born, a relative told me about OLD SOULS, a book about Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia and his many cases of very young children who seemed to remember specific details from previous lifetimes. They often had strong emotional attachments to these people they'd never met. These cases blew my mind, and I started to think, why are our children the way they are -- with their very particular fears and desires? What if one of my sons longed for a different mother? All of this percolated in my mind for a while, and eventually this story came to me of a skeptical single mom whose son longed for his "other" mother, and the journey she undertakes in order to help him. So that's how THE FORGETTING TIME began....I hope you enjoy it!(less)

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No question, but I just found out my review of "The Forgetting Time" has been chosen by IndieNext for their February newsletter. I'm pleased to be able to add some publicity for your book. Great treatment of a very interesting subject. And congrats, too, on being chosen by Flat Iron books as their first release. [And here's the question mark I need for the system to accept this: ?] Allen Murphey

Sharon Guskin That's fantastic. Thanks so much, Allen! …moreThat's fantastic. Thanks so much, Allen! (less)

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“He thought of Heraclitus: a man cannot step in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
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“You Only Live Once. That's what people said, as if life really mattered because it happened only one time. But what if it was the other way around? What if what you did mattered MORE because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across centuries and contents? What if you had chances upon chances to love the people you loved, to fix what you screwed up, to get it right?”
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“Why were we all hoarding love, stockpiling it, when it was all around us, moving in and out of us like the air, if only we could feel it?”
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