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Letting Go

其他書名	A Novel
出版	University of British Columbia, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NOCitAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This novel is the story of mountain guide Remy Lavoie who, during an expedition to the Himalayas, loses his adored father, Nick -- literally loses him: they never find Nick's body. Remy's grief, and his guilt over his role in the accident, trigger nightmares and flashbacks to his childhood in Argentina during the Dirty War of the 1970s, when his mother was disappeared by the government. His family, Nick included, has never wanted to talk about the past much, and pieces of the story are missing for Remy. Then, while cleaning out Nick's apartment, Remy finds a photograph of his father climbing Mt Aconcagua in Argentina -- a peak he'd claimed never to have climbed -- and a never-sent letter to an Argentine woman called Susana, who, it seems, might hold the information Remy wants. Remy decides to return to Argentina for the first time to look for answers and perhaps lay his ghosts to rest. He gets a job on an expedition to Mt Aconcagua with a group of clients, and the bulk of the novel takes place on that mountain. In the process of tracing his father's footsteps and trying to find out more about his mother, Remy learns his parents were fallible: not the heroes, martyrs, he'd always assumed. Remy, a quiet, angry, closed-up man, is finally able to step out from under his father's shadow, beginning to shake off his lifelong and new guilt and grief; to open up; and to connect with someone else.