Sharon Guskin Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Sharon Guskin is a published author known for her debut novel, the fictional work The Forgetting Time.

On top of writing fiction, she’s worked as a writer and a producer of some award-winning documentary films. These include Stolen and the film On Meditation. She started exploring the same ideas that she explored in The Forgetting Time while working at a refugee camp in Thailand when she was a young lady.

She would later serve as a hospice volunteer not long after her first child was born. Sharon has been a fellow at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale. She has degrees from Yale University and the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Sharon is married and has two sons. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

The Forgetting Time is a 2016 novel by Sharon Guskin. This is a book that is going to get your thoughts going and also draw you into the story at the same time. New York Times #1 bestselling author Christina Baker Kline called this a ‘relentlessly paced page-turner and a profound meditation on the meaning of life’.

What do you think happens to us after we pass? What happens before the time that we are born? This is both an incredible mystery and a testament to the connection that can exist between a parent and their child. This novel is going to have you re-evaluating all that you believe.

What would a reader do if they had a young son who said that he had lived another life before and that he wants to return to it and wants his other mother? Would you take what your four-year-old was saying at face value or would you become concerned that an active imagination was going a bit too far?

Janie is a single mother and she is doing the most that she can to try and discover what is going on with Noah. Noah is her son and he is very important to her but she has to admit that in the history of his existence she could not say that Noah was what you would deem to be ‘ordinary’.

He had a penchant for making up stories and loved to do it, always surprising her with some random trivia that someone who his age should not even technically know. She always put it down to the fact that Noah was a precocious little kid who seemed much more mature than his actual years. But these are eccentricities at best, and she has to admit to herself that they are starting to worry her more and more.

On one afternoon in particular, Noah’s preschool teacher gets in touch with Janie. Over the call, she informs her that Noah has been talking at the school about shooting guns and also about being held under the water until he can’t breathe. The school orders that he gets a psych evaluation and now as a mother she can’t pretend anymore. She cares about Noah so much but the life that she has known has stopped and has now become something else.

Jerome Anderson feels that the life that he knows has stopped already. He has been diagnosed as having aphasia and he is approaching the end of his life but the first thing that he thinks is that he is not done yet. He was once an academic star, someone who graduated Harvard and Yale, and was a professor of psychology. But he decided that he was going to throw it all away so that he could go after an obsession, the stories of children who were able to recall past lives.

Anderson knew that all of his peers were laughing at him. But he never stopped believing that there was something further outside of what people could see or understand. He went looking for a case for most of his life that would prove this and thinks that he may have found it at last with Noah.

Soon Janie, Noah and Anderson are going to be knocking on the door of a mother who has been going through it because of the fact that her son has been missing for eight years. Opening that door might finally mean that all of the questions that they have are going to be answered.

An incredibly written story, this debut story from Sharon Guskin focuses on the lengths that we often will go to in order to help our children. It also takes a look at what we come to regret when our lives are over and what we hope for in the start– as well as everything that happens in the middle. Check out The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin to follow along with every word!