Jack Boughton is trouble, or so Ames believes, and the rest of the story concerns Ames's struggles with doubt and redemption, interwoven with his memories of his father and grandfather.
What he finds, in a childhood, adolescence and early adulthood detained in England by Ghana's 1974 coup - memories interwoven with the episodic account of his return to Africa - is a story of the refugee's distress: banging his head against the wall as a child, suffering outrageously racist taunts, being given detention in school for "too much lip".
I've argued before that the smallness of Alliss threw the huge – if hugely misguided – actions of Van de Velde into even sharper relief, and certainly his excruciatingly parochial commentary is interwoven into my memory of the occasion.
Picture books – well, good ones – are a perennial delight: the alchemy of hypnotically rhythmic words and interwoven images creates extraordinary memories for the looking and listening child.
Her memories are interwoven with those of several other witnesses and survivors in that small town 30 miles from the Chechen border, including a woman who was held captive with her son and describes drinking her child's urine to stay alive.
The first is 3D architecture, with chips stacked high, and memory storage units interwoven with processors.
For depression patients who retain the capacity for autonomous decision-making, current bioethical attitudes about ECT and informed consent fail to adequately appreciate how "loss of memory" is interwoven with, and inextricable from, the patient's experience of self.
Scraps of colloquial speech are interwoven with tastes, sounds and memories: "Get a lungful of that in you and see how you do, she says cigarette filter fraying brown on her tongue.
People and place are interwoven in a tapestry of memories that enhances your response to both.
All these shreds of evidence reflect the interwoven networks of navigation and memory [10].
