How much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives? As a nine-year old?? Elizabeth Farnsworth struggled to understand the loss of her mother. On a cross-country trip with her father?? the heartsick child searches for her mother at train stations along the way. Even more?? she confronts mysteries: death?? time?? and a mysteriously locked compartment on the train.

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