Description
The Rememberers is the story of a man who is uncomfortable with the complacency of his life as he moves through middle age. Ray finds himself reminiscing as the city he loves hurtles into the new century. His complacency is destroyed when he meets a beautiful woman who claims to know him intimately while he has no memory of her. Walking her home after their initial meeting he finds himself in a neighborhood that cannot exist in his experience of the city. While in that neighborhood he meets a silent barista whose presence will unravel his life and cause him to question the reliability of memory. She is a rememberer and she tells him he is a mover, able to help others move between places that may or may not be part of the reality he thinks he knows so well. As he begins to contemplate this new state of things, a series of events, seemingly choreographed by a distant benefactor and moved forward by a trio of powerful women, begin to unfold. He finds himself in possession of an ancient house bordering an abandoned railway in the old neighborhood. Exploring, he finds an entrance to an entirely new place. He is tempted to enter that passage but must first understand the nature of a true risk, one that may mean the loss of everything familiar. The Rememberers is work of literary fiction that utilizes alternate realities in a realistic way to explore memory, loss, risk and, ultimately, transformation. Martin
The Rememberers, Prologue and Chapter One
