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The ReturnThe Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human. When Hisham Matar was a nineteen year old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances.

His first thought: So it’s you

” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory

terrorists

Andy switched codes to rugby union - a move that coincided with a dreadful series of injuries

people with important ideas–business people

It's not fair

' - John Updike

The first three come naturally

as well as his journey of healing and recovery

They are thought-provoking

smashing through convention after convention to produce a girl child story like no other girl child story

Isolated and afraid