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Mark Sarvas: Memento Park

When a veteran Hollywood character actor gets a call about a painting allegedly looted from his family by Nazis in 1944 Budapest, his life is thrown into personal, professional, and spiritual turmoil. Of the many questions asked — about family and identity, about art and history—a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?


Reading Group Guidefrom Macmillan

Kirkus review, March 13, 2018

Review by Adam Kirsch, Washington Post, March 8, 2018

Review by Heller McAlpin, NPR, March 14, 2018

Review by Ellen Umansky, New York Times, May 5, 2018

Review by Ingrid Vega, Zyzzyva, May 15, 2018

Profile by Agatha French, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2018

About Mark Sarvas