Scarecrow Has a Gun

Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own Sean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and the key is nowhere to be found.

Nearly two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a
state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.

While the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean's life. He pushes his family further and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about his past, Sean must fight for his very life. 



Auteur

Born in Bronx, New York, Michael Paul Kozlowsky is a former high school English/Film teacher and, writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, is the author of four children's books ? Frost, Juniper Berry, Rose Coffin and The Dyerville Tales. He lives in New York with his wife, two daughters and a rescue beagle named Huxley, and when he's not reading or playing chess, he continues to write everything from poetry to screenplays to short stories, journalism, philosophy, and books for readers of all ages. SCARECROW HAS A GUN is his first adult novel, a work constructed in the aftermath of a chaotic and failed attempt to capture the trials and tribulations of his childhood, which continue to haunt him until this day. He struggles endlessly with memory's torturous stranglehold over him, as, so he believes, do we all. He still dreams of one day becoming a stand-up comic.

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Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own Sean
Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her
eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. 
He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented
by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to
recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of
scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and
the key is nowhere to be found.

Nearly
two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre
contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a
state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive
every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.

While
the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding
the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean's life. He pushes his family further
and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities
and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling
downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to
realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about
his past, Sean must fight for his very life.