"The memory of the stars. The memory of a mother. And his daughter's. The memory of a people. How we remember. Why. For what. An exciting essay. Accompanying her mother in her neurological examinations, the narrator of this book notices that the brain activity projected on the monitor has many similarities with the astronomical images she knows. From this observation, Nona Fernández begins in this, her first essay, to scrutinize the mechanisms of stellar and human memory. Taking note of everything he reads, observes and thinks, in the manner of the Voyagers, those exploratory probes of space, Fernández is linking that record to his own history and that of the country, intelligently raising questions that are of now and always. How stars and people remember are questions that inevitably lead to the question of how people remember, and how they forget, and Nona Fernández approaches them with the sagacity and impetus that characterize her work"--Publisher's description.