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Don J. Snyder '73's 19-year-old mother died days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. Of Time and Memory, the non-fiction story of Snyder's search for her in the memories of her friends, family and husband, brings to life the mother he never knew–the girl of 13 jitterbugging in the back of a pickup truck, the young bride on her honeymoon kissing her husband as they ride all the way down 11 floors on an elevator, the woman whose desires and fears Snyder needs to know–"the one without whose touch our own worthiness would forever be in doubt." Abandonment and loneliness pervade this deeply moving story. Snyder gathers all the time that other people had with her and makes the sum of their moments his own. Along the way he "finds" his father, too, the person his mother had known and fallen in love with, the man who had never been the same after his young wife of 10 months died. Getting at the heart of this woman means going for the heart. Snyder's lyrical prose reaches peak after sad, beautiful peak. In the sweeps of time and space that overpower mother and father and Snyder himself, his own wife and four children prove understandably precious. |
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