Featured Excerpt: The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson

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July 13, 1987

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Monday

I bear in mind every little thing.

This isn’t an exaggeration. Because the few who know me would verify, I’m not liable to hyperbole. And once I say I bear in mind every little thing, I’m not speaking in regards to the occasions of this morning. Or yesterday. Or the entire of final week.

I bear in mind every little thing since October 2, 1973.

For the reason that day I woke from my coma once I was seven years previous.

Each meal. Each dialog. The lyrics of each music that entered my ears. Each phrase of each web page of each e book that handed beneath my gaze.

Each phrase of abuse.

And all of the phrases of reward.

A kind of outnumbers the opposite, however I’m not within the temper to report the rating.

I’ve supreme eidetic reminiscence mixed with hyperthymesia—the flexibility to recall life occasions in nice element. It’s exceedingly uncommon that an individual has each these items.

Fortunate me.

Factor is, my skills typically hang-out me, however not as a lot as considered one of my profound inabilities.

I bear in mind nearly nothing of my life earlier than October 2, 1973.

I’ve seen photographs. I’ve heard tales. I’ve been informed certainly you bear in mind extra occasions than I can depend—okay, that’s a lie; I’ve been informed that 217 occasions up to now fourteen years.

However I don’t bear in mind. And when I attempt to, it’s like making an attempt to observe a film via a crashing ocean wave.

And but.

Now and again, as soon as each two years or so, I recall one thing of that misplaced interval of my life. Often, it’s a small element, like consuming vanilla tender serve beneath a towering oak tree within the park close to my home. These sudden reminiscences will floor in good—however not vivid—element. And, god, how I would like these uncommon finds to be significant, to be revelatory of some higher reality, however my guess is that they’re simply the results of an inconceivable synchronicity of firing synapses.

However right this moment.

At this time I had my strongest recollection ever.

I instantly remembered bits and items of a street journey I took with my father.

I used to be six.

We drove from Wisconsin to Los Angeles. I assume we drove again, too, however I don’t do not forget that.

This recollection was the primary time I ever noticed my father inside the confines of my very own thoughts. No photographs. No previous Tremendous 8 reels. It was the daddy I skilled as a little bit lady.

This reminiscence.

This occurred right this moment.

Proper earlier than I flip twenty-one.

Proper as I count on to listen to from him, his annual birthday card.

Goddamn. This might be significant. It’s going to be an excellent day.

Excerpted from The Father She Went to Discover by Carter Wilson. Copyright © 2024 by Carter Wilson. Reprinted with permission from Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks. All rights reserved.

About The Father She Went to Discover by Carter Wilson:

Penny has by no means met anybody smarter than her. That’s par for the course while you’re a savant—considered one of lower than 100 on the earth. However regardless of her photographic reminiscence and super-powered mind, there’s one thriller Penny’s by no means been capable of clear up: why did her father go away when she was in a coma at age seven, and the place is he now?

On Penny’s twenty-first birthday, she receives a card within the mail from him, simply as she has yearly since he left. However this birthday card is totally different. For the primary time ever, there’s a return handle. And a goodbye.

Penny doesn’t know the world past her mom’s home and the particular faculty she’s attended since her uncommon skills revealed themselves, however the thriller of her father’s disappearance turns into her new obsession. For the primary time ever she decides to go away dwelling, to interrupt freed from every little thing that has saved her secure, and use her presents to reply the questions which have at all times eluded her. What Penny doesn’t notice is she won’t be capable of outsmart a world way more difficult and harmful than she’d ever imagined…

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