Rodrigo Garcia's A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir
Memory is our gift and curse. It gives us identity but also makes us vulnerable. We do not want to remember that we live in time, in death’s shadow. A memoir, even a short one, is a marathon of heroic and tender remembering in search of reconciliation. It redefines the writer’s relation with time, with all that exists in time and will cease to exist with the passage of time.