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Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I can't deny that Persistence of Memory has an interesting premise. The protagonist, Erin, is a teenage girl who has been institutionalized most of her life due to multiple personalities and hallucinations. As the novel begins, Erin's alternate personality, Shevaun, has been suppressed by drugs for about a year, and Erin is taking the first steps toward going to a regular high school and having a "normal" life. Right at this inopportune time, Shevaun reasserts herself and once again threatens to destroy Erin's sanity, and perhaps her life.

The jacket copy suggests that the central plot of the story involves Erin trying to discover whether Shevaun is an alternate personality or whether she is actually a separate person who is psychically linked to Erin. I really liked this idea, and really felt for Erin in the early ... Read More