Eventually, Meck became able to form new memories, but in many respects she was like a child. She still couldn't read, and eventually learned to do so by helping her eldest son with his first-grade homework. She didn't understand the nature of most adult social interactions, and was baffled by such commonplace activities as celebrating holidays, going to church and making small talk.
She got by, to an often astonishing extent, by "simply observing what other people did and what other people said, and then doing or saying it myself I still didn't understand why I did half the stuff I did. I just knew that it was the right thing to do.
Meck would most like "I Forgot to Remember" to "explain what it really means to live with a head injury," but her memoir inevitably ends up also being the story of a family and, especially, a marriage. Jim, just 24 when the accident occurred and embarking on a demanding career as a computer security engineer, thought Su seemed "okay to him most of the time," but above all "he just wanted me to be okay so we could move on with our lives.
The son, Benjamin, began doing this at the age of four. Su has little recollection of how smoothly things went at home during the first few years after her accident, but it seems a miracle no one was killed or seriously injured, especially when the family needed to move and Jim decided they should drive both cars across country. He now admits that "in the world of really dumb ideas he has had in his life, this was probably the worst.
He would fly into rages whenever Su's behavior indicated otherwise, frightening her.
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Su Meck's is a remarkable story and "I Forgot to Remember" is a remarkable memoir, although not for the usual reasons. Most memoirs are works of both art and recollection, shaped from the stuff of life but most definitely shaped. Frequently the contemporary memoir is written in a highly literary style, all striking metaphors and lyrical prose, arriving at a satisfying conclusion. Meck's memoir, on the other hand, is not literary; some passages have the banal cheeriness of an email update from an unbookish friend or relative: Life is never dull!
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What "I Forgot to Remember" is, however, is unnervingly honest, straightforward to a degree that makes every other memoir I've read seem evasive, self-conscious and preening. It is utterly free of signs that Meck wants her reader to think of the book in a particular way or to view her as a certain type of person. It's a story told without a moral or the urging to take away any pat life lesson beyond the realization that a loved one who's been hit on the head might be more affected by it than he or she seems.
Indeed, it makes sense that someone like Meck, whose grip on her own identity is hard-won, would care so implacably about telling the truth, even when that truth makes it difficult to leave a good impression. This extraordinary quality becomes all the more marked as "I Forgot to Remember" unfolds and Su learns that neither Jim nor her own past is what she's been told.
Her accounts of the intimate life of her marriage take on an arresting, even brutal forthrightness: In a way, Jim was assigned to me. I never really had a say, which sounds incredibly cruel, but that's essentially the way it is. Sign In Don't have an account?
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