Jamie Harrison. (2021). The Center of Everything: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Jamie Harrison. 2021. The Center of Everything: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.

Jamie Harrison, The Center of Everything: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2021.

Jamie Harrison. The Center of Everything: A Novel. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2021.

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     Jamie Harrison, who has lived in Montana with her family for more than thirty years, has worked as a caterer, a gardener, and an editor. She is the author of five previous novels—the Jules Clement series of mysteries and The Widow Nash, a finalist for the High Plains Book Award and the winner of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award. Find out more at JamieHarrisonbooks.com.

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In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of the Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a recent accident, not always trusting reality.

For Polly, the town of Livingston, Montana, is a land charmed by natural beauty and a close network of family extending back generations. But a recent head injury has scattered her perception of the present, surfacing events from thirty years ago and half a country away. As Polly's relatives arrive for a family reunion during the Fourth of July holiday, a beloved friend goes missing on the Yellowstone River, dredging up difficult memories for a family well acquainted with tragedy.

A generational saga from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash, The Center of Everything offers a stunning and heartfelt examination of the deep bonds of family and how the ones we love—and the secrets we keep—echo throughout our lives.

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     Starred review from October 19, 2020
     An undercurrent of tragedy runs through Harrison’s brilliant latest (after The Widow Nash), about the effects of a brain injury on a 42-year-old Montana woman. Three months after a bicycle accident, Polly Schuster suffers from migraines and short-term memory loss, and has trouble concentrating on work at her husband’s restaurant. After family friend Ariel goes missing during a Yellowstone River kayak trip, Polly tells her mother, Jane, she remembers seeing four dead bodies by the time she was nine. Jane insists these are just “photographs turned into memories” after her accident, and gradually Polly begins to grasp why Jane is trying to mislead her. As Polly grows suspicious about Ariel’s disappearance, her world cracks open with revelations about the truth behind her family’s tragic past. A series of chapters set in 1968 reveal the sources of Polly’s memories, covering her childhood spent in Long Island living with her renowned archaeologist great-grandfather who moved east decades earlier, after Jane’s mother died in an accident on the Yellowstone River, and an incident involving a suicidal private plane crash. Against the backdrop of Polly’s family history and the author’s exploration of the vagaries of the human mind, Harrison plumbs complex family relationships and sheds insight on the power of memories and how they shape her characters. Harrison shines with passages of vivid imagery as Polly gains an added dimension of perception from looking at art and photographs. Readers will find themselves wishing this won’t end.

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   • content: Jane Oppenheimer's narration is thoughtful and appropriate in this story about memories and family. Polly has recently had an accident resulting in short-term memory issues. Trying to regain her independence, she begins to analyze what she remembers. Bouncing between past and current events, listeners will wonder along with her what is real and what has been imagined. In Oppenheimer's portrayal of Polly as a 42-year-old, listeners hear the struggle to hold on to thoughts and memories in her steady pacing and unemotional tone. As a 7-year-old character, Oppenheimer allows wonder and perplexity to shine through. In the brief moments of dialogue, Oppenheimer adds just enough nuance to give all the characters clear voices. S.K.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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