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by Michael Ford (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 stars "No one would kill Dan, no one could!", May 26 2009
By Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews
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A bleak story of animosities and buried secrets, and the power of memory to influence a family's life, What We Remember examines the lives of the McCloud family. It is 1991 and the body of the Daniel McCloud has been found after he suddenly vanished back eight years previously, and leaving behind a suicide note telling his wife Ada he had cancer. Ada is understandably shattered at the discovery, along with her three children James, Celeste, and the youngest child Billy.

For years the family have tried to navigate the roads of temperance, while James has left the area and moved on and now lives with his girlfriend Charly, Celeste has adopted a more conventional life in Cold Falls, mothering two children and marrying Nate Derry, the cocky town sheriff who has long-buried ties to the McClouds. Only Billy seems to be drifting, his shattered life marred by substance abuse, but it is perhaps Billy who holds the key to what happened to his father.

While Nate constantly reminds Billy of his shortcomings and resents his sexuality, nonetheless, it is also Nate who accuses James of murdering his father when a bejeweled ring that once belonged to James is discovered with the body. When Charly comes to Cold Falls to help prove James' innocence, Michael Thomas Ford adds layer upon layer of drama to this story as Charly's investigations causes a dark secret to unfurl and the revelation that Nancy, a childhood friend of the boys, was secretly sent away to Maine after she was discovered to be pregnant.

Ford beautifully balances the tender scenes of family intimacy, particularly Ada and her determination to keep her children safe from the preying eyes of the past, with the wider mystery as his novel accelerates forwards, and allegations of rape reinforce the unsaid tension between Nate and James and Billy. It is these implicit animosities, long built up that have their seed in the tragic events of 1982. The mystery behind Daniel's death is finally revealed and in the process his family learn some painful insights, along with all of the angst that must come with the demands of family and the need to belong.

What We Remember signifies Ford's maturing as a writer and he perfectly captures the hormone-driven frustrations of a generation of teenagers as they're thrust amid the uniquely the stifling mores of suburbia, and also the complicated layers of family and friendship that are eventually torn apart by the endless passage of time. Mike Leonard May 09.
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