Everything you need to understand or teach O Is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton.
This quotation from early in the novel sets the scene for one of its central concerns: Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
O Is for Outlaw handles the concept of distorted memories primarily through...