Valley of Forgetting

Valley of ForgettingBy: Jennie Erin Smith A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY "Valley of Forgetting reminds us that scientific progress is measured not only in breakthroughs but also through the sacrifices people make, the trust that is built. It is a tender story of the unshakable will to make meaning in the face of inexorable loss. . . . Smith elegantly captures what it means to

Prepare to know fear in its full form

and we can do likewise

The fact that he’s twelve years her senior does nothing to diminish her attraction to him

but what he’s still doing to impact others

and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy

and a bounty on her head

why they can spiral out of control

She cracks open the feminised phenomenon of co-dependency

Francine Prose recalls the thrill and apprehension of riding alone as a teenage girl

How to Say Babylon is “a melodious wave of memories” of a woman finding her own power (NPR)

育兒的責任非常重大，但是請用開心的心情，

but she's smuggled an American Normal into London