The art of forgetting/Camille Noe Pagan

New York: Dutton, 2011.

Beautiful, exhuberent Julia is one day hit by a cab in New York and suffers brain damage that changes her personality and steals her memories. Her best friend Maria, successful but lacking in confidence finds her life changes too as she has to now take on an alpha personality and take charge. Both women have to face up to their relationship and decisions taken in the past and find the balance between forgetting and forgiving. A story of the true meaning of friendship, written in contemporary style, this novel will find definite appeal with the twenty-somethings.