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Review title: History, memory, identity
Product review: Superbly written, _In the Memory of the Forest_ is a powerfully haunting exploration of the dangerous consequences of suppressing painful memories, both individual and collective. I especially appreciated how Powers takes time to build his story carefully. The novel takes on the deliberate pace of history itself: each character is convincingly layered, just as the identity of a village, or a person, or a family, is also constructed over time, an accretion of interwoven layers of secrets, fears, loves, evils. A richly engrossing work that deserves to be widely read and discussed.
