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Forget Me Not: A Memoir

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There are parts of this book where you will feel the loneliness Jen feels as well as the times where you will smile along with the charactors in the story.

Like a Marc Chagall of the American West, Jennifer Lowe-Anker paints lucid dreams, and she’s given us one of her best in Forget Me Not. I read this as a frequent reader of climbing literature, but one could read it just as easily without that background. I was simply overwhelmed (in a good way) by Jennifer's captivating voice, her beautifully descriptive passages of the beauty in her surroundings, her meticulous record-keeping to reconstruct the past, and her frank, introspective view of the meaning of it all. If you have read Into Thin Air, then this is probably a book you will like although I liked that book but not this one as much because of the characters. It seemed an exemplary model for an age where more and more of might want things that take us to very different parts of the world than our partners.Her love of nature, her fierce sense of freedom, the courage with which she moves through whatever life throws at her - what an amazing woman! Jennifer Lowe-Anker paints folktales, fantasies and dreamlike reveries, often set against majestic backdrops in the natural world, in a style much like Marc Chagall’s. Lowe and the photographer ran down the mountain as the avalanche started, rather to the side as Anker did. Interesting in its own right, is Jennifer’s path towards becoming an artist; she is a talented painter, and her work graces the cover of the book.

Her involvement with Conrad Anker, Alex's best friend and also a world-renowned climber, is also addressed.This is a fascinating look at the life of someone who continually challenges himself, and the choices that must be made to support this lifestyle. She is a serious climber herself (or was; as she states, parenthood increased her drive for self preservation), and she conveys clearly the concepts necessary to understand the climbing stories she relays.

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