INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
BookBrowse’s 12 Best Books for Book Clubs in 2017
Amazon Rising Star of 2016
Booklist Top Ten Debut Novels in 2016 (audiobook)
Best 35 Over 35
Best Books of 2016: WGRT Radio, The Book Whisperer, The Good Book Fairy, triplemelt.co.uk, Carpe Librum
Best Debut of 2016: Carpe Librum
An Indie Next Pick
An Amazon Best Book of February
A Barnes & Noble February Top Pick in Fiction
17 International Editions
“Gripping, deft, and moving.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Bold, captivating…Guskin amps up the suspense while raising provocative questions about the maternal bond and its limits…you’ll be mesmerized.”
—People Magazine (Book of the Week)
“A great read―Guskin combines a thought-provoking idea with a well-written and compelling story that ensures readers will stay with it…Engaging and riveting. It will make you think about what really matters and how best to spend the time we have.”
—Vancouver Sun
“I love this book. It is absolutely spectacular. It’s a page-turner but also incredibly thought provoking. It left me completely changed―and isn’t that why we all read in first place? The Forgetting Time is a book you’ll want to talk about with all of your friends.”
―Octavia Spencer, Academy Award-winning actress
“Readers will be galvanized by Guskin’s sharply realized and sympathetic characters with all their complications, contradictions, failures, sorrows, and hope. Deftly braiding together suspense, family drama, and keen insights into the workings of the brain, Guskin poses key and unsettling questions about love and memory, life and death, belief and fact….The Forgetting Time offers a vast spectrum of significant and nuanced topics that will catalyze probing discussions.”
—Booklist (Starred Review)
“Provocative and suspenseful…Guskin portrays [Janie and Anderson] with immense empathy.”
—BBC.com, Ten Books to Read in February
“For fans of Cloud Atlas and The Lovely Bones, this psychological mystery will have you hooked until the case is closed…Or is it?”
—Cosmopolitan
“Meticulously weaves together a web of sympathetic, multi-dimensional characters…plenty of fodder for your next book club.”
—InStyle.com, Six Books to Read This Month
“Powerful..an intimate and suspenseful portrait of a family in crisis and a man struggling to take control of what little life remains to him….[Guskin] challenges readers to dream beyond conventional boundaries and consider that human consciousness may be more complicated and far-reaching than science or Western religion believe. At the same time, her grasp of the beauty and ferocity of a mother’s love grounds the story in a frame anyone can accept. The complex but graceful knitting together of the story’s loose ends will give the reader a sense of balance and lightness that comes from remembering how many unexplained wonders the universe has in store for all of us.”
—Shelf Awareness
“An incredible Russian doll of a novel…superb fiction. Five stars.”
—Press Association
“A compelling page-turner…engaging and well-crafted with a satisfying ending, The Forgetting Time is unforgettable.”
—The Daily Express
—BookBrowse (Editor’s Choice)
“This impeccably plotted and paced debut novel gets to the very heart of the cycle of life and death.”
—Barnesandnoble.com, February 2016 Top Picks in Fiction
—An Amazon.com Best Book of February
―New York Journal of Books
“…wholly original…You’ll come away moved by this affecting tale of maternal love and the unbreakable cords of memory.”
—BookPage
“Equal parts mystery and a testament to the profound connection between a child and parent, The Forgetting Time marks the debut of a major new talent.”
—Domino.com
“[The Forgetting Time] is amazing…It’s an epic story about relationships.”
—Elle.com Celebrity Reads: Film and television star Priyanka Chopra
“Captivating….Book of the Month.”
—Candis Magazine
“A lovely, well-crafted novel…Guskin draws her readers in by creating three dimensional characters, each of whom get their own perspective…this novel opens the reader to intriguing possibilities about what happens after we die. It is a deeply emotional and engrossing story…hard to put down.”
—Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
“This is an impressive debut novel with a page-turning storyline and an insightful perspective. 5 out of 5 stars.”
—Newstalk 1010
“This is an amazing book that will have readers asking questions about life after death, and thinking about the meaning of life.”
—The Missourian
“At once a mystery and a treatise on the things we will do for our children (everything, anything) and the slow-release pain of loss, The Forgetting Time also fascinates with details from real-life studies into potential past-life cases Guskin has incorporated into the novel.”
—The Globe and Mail
“…suspenseful, consistently empathetic and thoughtful missing-pieces study of a topic that is largely ignored, and rarely treated seriously in public discourse.”
—The Coast (New Zealand)
“An impressive debut…very assured and a real page-turner.”
—Nudge-book.com
“If I could give this book six stars (out of five) I would…I have no doubt she’ll be my favourite debut author of 2016.”
—carpelibrum.net (Australia)
“Put it on your must-read list of 2016. You will not be disappointed.”
—Writers Write Reviews (South Africa)
“A compelling page-turner which I polished off in one sitting.”
—American Book Center
“Thoughtful and interesting…I enjoyed it enormously, and I think you would too, whatever your belief system may be!”
—Harriet Devine, Co-editor, Shiny New Books
OTHER PRAISE
“When I wasn’t reading The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it. And when I was reading it, my mind was exploding with questions about what’s possible, what’s probable, and how our lives are caught between the two. Provocative, evocative, and fresh, Guskin’s book is an explosive debut.”
—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time
“Sharon Guskin’s debut is the literary equivalent of the sensation you get when, after stargazing from some hillside on a clear night, you’re suddenly hit with the terrifying and exhilarating scope of the unknowable. A truly remarkable, dizzying and exquisite page-turner.”
—Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife
“What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across decades and continents? This question is at the heart of Sharon Guskin’s luminous novel. The Forgetting Time is about memory and forgetting, grieving and letting go, and the lengths a mother will go to for her child. It is both a relentlessly paced page-turner and a profound meditation on the meaning of life.”
—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
“The Forgetting Time is a magical, wise, page-turner of a novel that brings to mind the early work of Alice Hoffman. I absolutely loved it. A very moving, soulful, and beautifully-made debut.”
—Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion
“A spellbinding ride. Guskin’s beautifully rendered and wonderfully told novel explores the mysteries of how we connect to one another in the deepest of ways. What an amazing book.”
—Mary Morris, author of The Jazz Palace
“Sharon Guskin has written a novel that’s meticulously crafted without ever losing the heart and soul of the story. It’s both a beautiful tale of the bond between a mother and her young son as well as a gripping mystery that asks that universal human question ‘were we here before?’ Reading The Forgetting Time becomes a personal journey as you try to remember all that you’ve forgotten.”
—Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Sister
“Irresistible…this clever, heartfelt book kept me turning pages long into the night.”
—Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Lake House
“The Forgetting Time is a beautifully written, riveting mystery novel with pervasive past-life themes. I highly recommend it.”
—Dr. Brian Weiss, bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters
“The Forgetting Time is skillfully written and the story is terrific, beguiling, heartbreaking and droll by turns. I’m listening to it on CD, and I’ve sat in the car for forty minutes, with ice cream melting in the grocery bags, so I didn’t have to leave its world.”
―Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean