Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...
This book was fantastic. It really gives new meaning to dysfuntional family. I had never heard of this family before and since reading this story, have seen them referred to in several television shows.
This is a non-fictional retelling of the prominent Walworth family of the then fashionable Saratoga Springs, New York. Ella Hardin was married to Mansfield Tracy Walworth who turned out to be a bit of a nutter, as well as an abusive husband. Finally the abuse reaches such a level that it drives thei...