“Remember Mia” is the story of a woman who has literally lost her seven month old daughter. It is also a story about the deep postpartum depression a woman can suffer from following birth. The first third of the book moved a little slowly and, frankly, I had a hard time reading about Stella’s inability to care for her child. I was blessed not to suffer from this after my children were born and reading about it was very difficult to do.
Author Alexandra Burt has provided a psychological drama in which no one knows what has happened to seven month old Mia. Her mother, Estella (Stella) has suffered a devastating accident and is suffering from amnesia. Everyone, including her husband Jack, is quick to blame her when Mia goes missing. Her actions and her inactions seem to condemn her out of hand.
Jack convinces Stella to commit herself to a psychiatric hospital (though he does it as a way to keep her from being arrested.) Stella goes along with it because she is so out of control, she doesn’t know what is the right thing to do.
The story focuses on Stella’s treatment for memory recovery. As the story goes along and fragments of memory surface, the story becomes more and more intense. By the end of the book, there is such much more to this story than there appeared to be at the beginning.
I received a complimentary copy of this book via the publisher.
