Books like Last night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Lilia Albert has spent her life vanishing from one place to another, leaving behind family, friends, and lovers and never fully anchoring herself. Traumatized by an amnesia that erases her childhood, she continues to be restless, drifting from city to city. A private investigator who has followed her for years keeps a watchful eye on her movements. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets and make sure she is safe. The novel explores love, obsession, compulsive travel and the limits of family bonds, revealing how small revelations continually shift truth and have desperate consequences.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Emily St. John Mandel
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