Edward Matthews in conversation with Alan Bilton, Swansea University, @eddiematthews22 @ABiltonAuthor
BORDER MEMORIES
Monday 20 March
19:00-20:00
Taliesin Create
Singleton Campus
Edward Matthews is a writer based in San Diego, California. He earned his PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University in 2020. Border Memories is his first novel.
A staggeringly original and imaginative exploration of memory, identity and loss, set on the US/Mexican border in the near future"
Sol Andrews works for a San Diego start-up that traffics in the underground memory trade—harvesting memories from donors in Mexico and implanting them in Americans. He inherited the job from his brother, whose recent suicide left a hole in his life.
Sol’s newest client is Mr Bray—old, rich, well-connected, blind. Mr Bray has heard rumors of a mysterious graveyard in Tijuana where miracles are said to occur, a place that could restore his sight. He has tracked down a young librarian who knows the graveyard—Nora Rincón—but its location is buried in a childhood memory.
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