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The Memory Closet
Written by Ninie Hammon
Narrated by Christa Lewis
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
For twenty-five years, Anne Mitchell was enslaved by what she called the "Boogeyman"-images from her lost childhood that appeared in the shadows behind her reflection in mirrors and wine glasses, haunted her dreams and attacked her in screaming night terrors. Fear of facing that secret held her hostage. Like a schoolyard bully, it twisted her arm behind her back and forced her to accept that her life began in the dirt beside a ditch when she was eleven years old.
Then the monster shattered her career.
And Anne saw him in her dying mother's eyes. With her last breath, Susan Mitchell begged for her daughter's forgiveness. She didn't mean for it to happen, she gasped, but she'll burn in hell for what she did all the same.
What did her mother do? Anne has to know. So she has come home to a small Texas prairie town, to live with her crazy grandmother in the rambling old house where she grew up, to take her stand against the Boogeyman. But Anne isn't really prepared for how expensive remembering might be. The cost of her memories could very well be her sanity. She might even have to pay for her past with her life.
Then the monster shattered her career.
And Anne saw him in her dying mother's eyes. With her last breath, Susan Mitchell begged for her daughter's forgiveness. She didn't mean for it to happen, she gasped, but she'll burn in hell for what she did all the same.
What did her mother do? Anne has to know. So she has come home to a small Texas prairie town, to live with her crazy grandmother in the rambling old house where she grew up, to take her stand against the Boogeyman. But Anne isn't really prepared for how expensive remembering might be. The cost of her memories could very well be her sanity. She might even have to pay for her past with her life.
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Reviews for The Memory Closet
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A forgotten childhood, drawings for a children's book she doesn't remember drawing, the feeling of being watched and the death of her mother sends Annie back to small town Texas to BoBo, her grandmother, and the answers she desperately needs. Annie believes to have been in a car wreck around age 11 that not only took her sister's life but her memories as well. To Annie that day is the first day of her childhood as all memories before that are gone. Poof! Upon her arrival in Texas she's surprised to find BoBo has really started to go senile thinking her mother had exaggerated. Now she's not so sure that the answers she needs from BoBo are still going to be there. Some childhood friends will be there to lend a hand and maybe even a shoulder to cry on. Make sure you have a box of tissues because it's an emotional roller coaster as Annie searches for answers to questions she's second guessing having asked. **WARNING** Not Graphic but this book involves child sexual abuse, child abuse, drugs, alcoholism, domestic abuse, Mental Health Issues, Violent Death of a child, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and crude language**
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5m young woman returns to her childhood home hoping to recover her lost memories. What follows is a horrific tale of trauma and abuse. Well written, but very disturbing. I would caution survivors of abuse against reading it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like other reviewers I found this book incredibly sad but also funny in places and it was not without hope. After a bad childhood the main character does find happiness and goes on to live a fulfilling life, although her journey of discovery is heart wrenching. Lovely book with a little romance thrown in for good measure.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nine times out of ten when I try a new to me author with "must read" or "amazing" reviews I end up disappointed. The Memory Closet was the 1 in 10! Annie has no memories prior to the car accident that killed her sister when she was 11. She has lived the past 25 knowing there is a Bogie man in those lost memories and now she has decided to free herself. Unfortunately, the key to opening those memories is Bobo, Annie's grandmother, who is in the grip of dementia. As things are revealed it is hard to know what is real and what is distortion.These were great characters and relationships. The pain as the truth comes out is intense. The ending is very satisfactory.I hope to find more by this author!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Anne's in her mid-30s. She's just arrived at her grandmother's house on a quest: she wants to remember her childhood. The first 11 years of her life are completely gone. She knows something bad happened to her, but she doesn't know what (or who's to blame).This was an interesting concept and the book was definitely enjoyable to read, but it needed a decent copyeditor ("break" instead of "brake," for example).I think also there was one too many twists at the end. Still, an enjoyable enough book--a solid, middle of the road read.