"The Clock Forgets Me"

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In a house on Maple Street, where time has suddenly come to a standstill, eighty-two-year-old Eileen Hart discovers that her kitchen clock is missing its minute hand. It is the first in a series of impossible occurrences. Sunflowers grow six feet tall overnight. Mirrors predict movements before they happen. Hallways shrink when she isn't looking. And when a middle-aged man named David arrives at her door — claiming to be the son she never had, complete with DNA evidence and a hospital brace at his wrist — Eileen has to decide whether the house is forgetting itself, or remembering something she chose, fifty years ago, not to. The Clock Forgets Me is a quiet, sensory novel about the small architectures of a long life: the rooms we lock, the children we don't have, the decisions that keep ticking long after the clock stops. For readers who loved the domestic strangeness of Piranesi, the late-life reckoning of Olive Kitteridge, and the slow-build unease of The Lovely Bones. Book One of The Memory Keepers — a trilogy about the people who guard what others have lost, and the impossible choices they make when memories become currency.