あらすじ
Clay Jacobs is a young man that hasn't had a whole lot of luck in love. Life in general was going pretty good, but his love life ... not so much. Clay is driving across the country on his way home for the holidays after going through yet another breakup when he finds himself waking up to a life and surroundings he doesn't remember. More importantly, he has a lover named Hayden he doesn't remember. His mother is there to assure him that the three years he's missing due to intermittent amnesia after a head injury he sustained while skiing are locked in his mind and shall return. In the meantime, Clay has to face everything from wrapping his damaged mind around missing three years to going on a vacation with a lover he has no recollection of. Will love conquer all? Or will missing memories and injury be his undoing?
作品考察・見どころ
本作は、自己という同一性の崩壊と、その裂け目を埋める愛の不確実性を描いた峻烈な人間ドラマです。空白の三年間という断絶は、単なる記憶喪失という装置を超え、過去の自分が築き上げた「幸福」を現在の自分が受け入れられるのかという、実存的な問いを鋭く突きつけます。 著者は、事故によって視界を奪われる状態を、主人公の混濁した内面と巧みに重ね合わせました。見知らぬ恋人への戸惑いと渇望の狭間で揺れる繊細な心理描写は、愛とは記憶の集積なのか、それとも魂の直感なのかを問い直させます。再生を願う切実な筆致は、暗闇で光を探す魂の叫びのように、読者の心を激しく揺さぶるでしょう。