Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home

Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home by Mosier, Elizabeth. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780898233827.

Literary Nonfiction. "The strings of a violin have to be held in place on both ends, and the two poles of Elizabeth Mosiers book are memory (as archaeology) and forgetting (in the very moving passages about the authors mother and her descent into the blankness of Alzheimers). The music of this book is very fine indeed, and its passion is for the preservation of objects, moments, persons, and places that Elizabeth Mosier has loved. In its clear-sighted lyric eloquence, this book is unforgettable."--Charles Baxter