You Lost Me There, by Rosecrans Baldwin

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You Lost Me There featured in the New York Times's Paperback Row

In Baldwin’s insightful first novel, a research scientist specializing in Alz­heimer’s disease discovers, to his dismay, that his dead wife’s accounts of their marriage — written on a series of notecards — are greatly at odds with his memories.

NPR includes You Lost Me There in "Best Books of 2010"

These books experiment with literary forms or even change the basic idea of what a “book” looks like. They all changed the way I understand writing and writers.

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YLMT chosen for McSweeney's Recommends

This is a smart book. Baldwin tells a love story, a loss story, a meditation on memory and marriage and the mind and science. It works. Plus, it helps our larger argument that this is a great year for first novels. Holiday shopping should be pretty easy this time around. Deliver it in a small baker’s box, why not?

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NPR on You Lost Me There: "Stunning"

The most surprising thing about You Lost Me There is Baldwin’s self-assured, subtle and unfailingly moving prose. The 33-year-old writer is uncannily perceptive when it comes to the complicated and fraught issues of marriage, death and sexual desire, and his dialogue is naturalistic and unforced. Perhaps most impressive, though, is the author’s artistic and emotional maturity — You Lost Me There is, finally, a wise book, the kind that eludes many authors twice Baldwin’s age.

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Entertainment Weekly on YLMT: "Beautiful, brainy, offbeat."

Baldwin shows steadying compassion and literary flair in the dissection of miseries, identifying with equal compassion the dissatisfactions of a dead wife and the grief of a bewildered widower. Behold the irony of a specialist in memory loss whose memory of his own marriage is unreliable.

Lisa Schwarzbaum’s full review here

DownEast Magazine on YLMT: "Poignant, very funny"

The more [Victor] discovers about the past, the less he can cope with the present. Yet he must cope, and seeing him try is one of the delights of this excellent novel, which while illuminating the tragedy of grief and loss, never loses sight of the comedy inherent in trying to make sense of it all.

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