The Colorado Review on Shun Medoruma's "In the Woods of Memory"
- Stone Bridge Press
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min read
In his beautifully insightful review of Shun Medoruma's novel In the Woods of Memory, literary critic Eric Maroney of the Colorado Review lauds the book as a "layered, textured novel [that] throws into stark relief the interconnections between experience and memory, and the enduring nature of trauma."
He goes on to perceptively note: "In the end, the title of Medoruma’s accomplished novel is telling: the woods of memory are a thicket filled with the overwhelming guilt of human helplessness. This is a dark conclusion, but the author suggests that by the telling and retelling of a great trauma, the stage is set for a wider sense of redemption."