In the StoryThe Residents of the Blue Room
Four of them remember the same cruise. Their memories do not fit the same file. In a Swedish retirement home, the account of a 1968 voyage passes among residents who seem to share more than nostalgia. Details match. Bonds reawaken. Two of the witnesses have no memory impairment, making the ready-made explanation harder still.
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The first was a date: Maj had written that the book club met on the 18th when it actually met on the 19th. The second concerned the number of thermoses ordered for the fall festival. The third was more delicate: under Asta—requests, someone had penciled in: expects her husband around four; set out two cups.Read the excerpt ↗