Author: Snyder, Don J. (signed),
Title: Of Time and Memory: a mother's story.
Description: NY, Knopf, 1999. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Don Snyder was 16 days old when his mother died in a small Pennsylvnia town in the summer of 1950, a girl of 19. Because. of the heartbreak of her death, her family kept information about her a secret. Here Don sets out to discover who his mother was and how she had loved his father now in failing health and return to him his mother's unremembered love story from his youth. It is a deep journey to her closest friends from high school, her childhood teachers, the now elderly women who had been her bridesmaids. The stunning secret of his mother's death brings back to him the lost world, voice, and being of the young woman who had given him life.

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