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“ In Arizona, he stood before the pay phone in the noonday sun. He could almost see her there in front of him, a ghost, a mirage, dialing a number dredged up from some recess of childhood memory. He turned back toward the motel.”
The 4th novel I’ve read by St John Mandel.
Recurrent themes across the four - motels/hotels, windows, a sense of transience and an inability to feel rooted or tied to a place.
— Jan 12, 2026 10:52AM
The 4th novel I’ve read by St John Mandel.
Recurrent themes across the four - motels/hotels, windows, a sense of transience and an inability to feel rooted or tied to a place.
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Bee
is 48% done
Other themes - how our memories are impermanent, unreliable. They fade over time, dissolve, and what we think we remember is often our own imagination filling in the blanks.
We have the ability to recreate ourselves, our own identity, simply by what we choose to remember about ourselves and about the other people in our life.
— Jan 12, 2026 10:57AM
We have the ability to recreate ourselves, our own identity, simply by what we choose to remember about ourselves and about the other people in our life.
