The giant women

In this novel, Wagner takes us on a journey into the inner world of those suffering from forgetfulness: they disappear from the present to the point of detachment from their own selves, and merge with the past to the point of identification with a former self. Intertwined and complex events at times, smooth and simple at other times. And in both cases, "the giant," the narrator's father, pulls us toward what we remember and forget, and toward what we do not know and yet know. He forgets, but he remembers that he forgets, so he leaves nothing without asking about it. He asks and is answered, and when he asks again, the answer is repeated. He says, "I feel like I fell out of a book, and I can't go back. Suddenly, I am in a completely different story, and I don't know what I should do there," thus summarizing the essence of the suffering of those with Alzheimer's, and their confusion between memory and reminiscence.