Forgotten

by Jessica Barksdale Inclán

What happens when you do the one thing you would never do? What happens when you forget the one thing you never, ever would forget, not in a million years? How do you keep on living when you are left but your child is not?

Marciela and Matthew Phillips are happily married, a hard working couple, the parents of a beautiful two-year-old girl, Rose. Marciela is determined to avoid the mistakes her own mother made, driving herself to be the best mother, wife, and worker she can be. But after the birth of her second child, Liam, she realizes that doing it all is doing too much.

And then she forgets. And nothing is ever the same.

263 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2011

About the author

Jessica Barksdale Inclán's sixteenth novel, What the Moon Did, and her first short story collection, Trick of the Porch Light, were published in 2023. Her novels include Her Daughter’s Eyes, The Play's the Thing, and The Burning Hour.

A Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the The Sun, Salt Hill Journal, Tahoma Review, and So to Speak. Her work has been recognized and honored by The Sewanee Review, The Wigleaf, The North American Review, and The Ocotillo Review

She taught composition, literature, and creative writing at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and continues to teach novel writing online for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University.

She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.

For more information, go to: http://www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com

Reviews

[Kelly Stokes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just finished reading this book. I have been reading it off and on since the summer. It is not anything I've read before at all. It basically is the story of a husband and wife and the tragedy they experience with one of their two children. It kept my interest. At times, though, I didn't want to keep reading because it is all so very sad and tragic. I have heard of real life stories where this situation has happened and I just cannot imagine going on having had this happen. If you like books that are emotional and deep then you will like this very much. It is not light reading nor relaxing reading. In the end, you are happy with the outcome and see that the husband and wife and their family will likely go on at least somewhat happy.

[Kaila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an odd weird book. At times I didn't want to finish it but yet needed to know what happened. Overall it wasn't my thing. .it was sad and just made me sad and the two main characters were just weird. It wasn't a bad book just not my thing.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maricela's actions were a bit confusing. Not that I would know what I would do in her situation. emotions were "real".

[Dawn Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really good book. It was at times heart-wrenching but also reminded me how this could happen to anyone. Great free kindle book!!