MacKillop takes the pain of aging and regret and infuses it with soul and a touch of humor. As the mother of four adult sons, she and her husband live in an empty nest outside of Chicago. in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon is her first novel. Her articles and essays have appeared in books, magazines, and literary journals such as Under the Sun and Relief Journal. Linda MacKillop writes fiction for both adults and young people, and creative nonfiction. But as her desire for privacy collides with her worsening memory, Eva may find herself in a pickle she can’t get out of. Too much change, too much togetherness, too much of an over-crowded life she never wanted. They’ll be one big family-but only Breezy and Brent think it’ll be a happy one. Then Breezy announces she’s getting married, and they’ll be moving to her new husband’s rundown family farm, where he lives with an elderly uncle. All she wants to do is move back to her quiet, cozy Cape Cod home and be left alone. Eva wants to run away from her life-if only she could remember how.įailing memory has forced Eva Gordon to move in with her granddaughter, Breezy.
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