Back to Blackbrick by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I enjoyed how this story played with narrative and memory as two sides of a coin. Exploring loss in general via dementia and a very down-to-earch time travel story was a fascinating patchwork of writing ideas. The themes and issues were nicely displaced and then emphasized by having most of the story within the fantasy time frame. It didn't feel like an 'issues' book, but it clearly worked with current realistic fiction issues. If the plot threads were predictable, it was still fun to watch Fitzgerald unfold them in clean understated writing. Some of the transitions and pieces of plot didn't fit as nicely as others, but it was still good reading.
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