This is a book is about cognitive memory. In our lives we experience both good and bad things. Christmas morning, birthday celebrations, home-runs and winning lottery tickets are things we would like to continually have show up in our memory banks. But that’s not all of our memory. We also experience funerals, breakups, wars, illness, politicians and high school. This book is an encouragement to all of us to take all of our memory, both good and bad, and use it to pave the road-map of our lives.
Really less of a cohesive narrative and more of a series of stories told from the author's perspective. There were some good nuggets in there where his voice really came through, such as in "Untitled 2" and "One Small..." Very pessimistic in places and probably not a book for everyone, but a decent quick read. He is dead wrong about cats though.