New York Times on “The Family Tabor” by Cherise Wolas (post 6) does not suspect multiple personality as cause of protagonist’s 30-year memory gap

The review says: “For 30 years, he has blocked from his memory the fact that he made his fortune on Wall Street by committing insider trading and fraud, and managed to send his friend, the innocent Max Stern, to prison in his stead…Harry has forgotten for 30 years how he made his fortune…More intriguing is the back-and-forth Harry has with himself over the morality of what he has done” (1).

Ordinarily, in reading such a review, I would not take it literally. I would assume it meant that although the character did remember his crime all those years, he had simply not liked to think about it.

However, I have read Cherise Wolas’s previous novel, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, and wrote five posts on it in May 2018 (either scroll down or search “Wolas”). And that novel was about a woman with a split personality.

So, not having read Wolas’s new novel, I don’t know whether the protagonist literally had the kind of  memory gap that could not be accounted for by ordinary forgetting, and which might imply multiple personality. And I don’t know whether “the back-and-forth Harry has with himself” is between his two personalities. But I wonder.

1. Alex Kuczynski. “It’s All Relative,” in New York Times Book Review, Sunday, August 19, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/books/review/family-tabor-cherise-wolas-long-island-story-rick-gekoski.html