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FORGETFULNESS

Not about me; about the book!

Forgetfulness, by Ward Just, is a subtly written survey of post-9/11 issues, oddly, outside America but not outside Americans.

Expats run into trouble. Their history catches up with them in ways that are surprising both to them and to us.

There is no doubt that the current 'war on terror' has all of us doing some inner gymnastics.

This gently tough book slowly brings a lot of these mental currents to the surface. At least it did for me.

I have read Ward Just for a long time. I am about to get all his books and read him over again.

He is a great writer with a wry and knowing voice. One feels that he has been there and done that.

When he writes of some CIA friends, I believe that he really has some.

All that aside, the story is great, terror or no terror, and I enjoyed it immensely.

Not that it matters a whole lot, but this book is on a lot of top ten lists right now.