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A family’s history is woven, unravelled, and rewoven into a tapestry spanning three generations. Museum curator Matthew Reade’s career and marriage are in crisis in the aftermath of a recent exhibition. When he gets a worrying phone call about his fiercely independent ninety-six-year-old mother, Penelope, Matt uses the excuse of a research project to return to the Maritimes to check on her for himself. Once home, he finds he must stay on to help navigate her new diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. The more Matt talks to his mother while preparing to move her into the local long-term care home, the more she reveals about his grandmother’s emigration from Norway to New Brunswick before World War I, the murky origins of the family handcraft business, her own complicated past relationships, and Matt’s beginnings. But how much of it can he trust and how much has been rewritten by the disease?

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"""This is a beautiful book, moving, thought-provoking, sometimes funny and curiously reassuring about the inevitable, inescapable, always messy course of life.""--Heather McBriarty ""The Miramichi Reader"" ""Felt serves as a poignant reminder of how elusive memories can become with the ravages of time."" --Amy Wilson ""Novels Alive"""

“This is a beautiful book, moving, thought-provoking, sometimes funny and curiously reassuring about the inevitable, inescapable, always messy course of life.” -- Heather McBriarty * The Miramichi Reader * “Felt serves as a poignant reminder of how elusive memories can become with the ravages of time.” -- Amy Wilson * Novels Alive * “Felt is a heartfelt paean to memory and the vagaries of time.” -- Michael Magras * Shelf-Awareness *

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Mark Blagrave was born and raised in Ontario, and has lived in New Brunswick most of his life. His first novel, Silver Salts, was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel and his novel Lay Figures was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. He now lives in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

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