At seventy, Abel Haggard is a hermit, resigned to memories of the family he has lost, living in isolation on his family’s farm amid the encroaching sprawl of Dallas. Hundreds of miles to the south in suburban Austin, fifteen-year-old Seth Waller is devastated when his mother’s increasingly eccentric behaviour is diagnosed as a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer’s. He begins an ‘empirical investigation’ to uncover the truth about her genetic history, and to understand the roots of this terrible disease. Though neither one knows of the other’s existence, Seth and Abel share a unique tradition: as children, both were told stories of Isadora, a fantastical land free from the sorrows of memory. Spanning continents and generations, The Story of Forgetting is the tale of how history became destiny; how the imagination can transform reality; and how loss, however devastating, can ultimately forge profound meaning. A heartbreaking and inspiring debut, it is the story of the complexity, the pain and the bliss of forgetting.