LitPick Review
Mira wasn't sure exactly when her mom started to get sick, but now she is. It's hard for her and her sister to remember what she was like before. They knew schizophrenia could control her and that's why both of them moved away and changed their names. They had to keep away from her harassing them about Nazis kidnapping, murdering, or raping them. She constantly called them, visited their apartments, and threatened to kill herself. Even when Mira was away to pursue her career as an artist she still couldn't stop thinking about her crazy mother, and the letters she got begging her her to come home weren't helping. After a terrible car accident Mira has to try to recover her memory. As she tries to get a hold of her mom through a homeless shelter, she finds out her mother is dying. When she and her sister Natalia come to visit her at the hospital they discover a set of keys for a storage unit her mom has owned for seventeen years. Seeing all of her old possessions, Mira starts to remember things she thought she never would.
Opinion:
The Memory Palace was a great book telling what it is like to have a schizophrenic mother. Mira Bartok does very well at explaining what she felt throughout the whole book. Some of it was a little confusing at times, but once I kept reading I understood it more. I would recommend this book for high school age because some parts may be inappropriate for younger readers. I loved this book and once I started reading I had trouble putting it down.
