Everything Happens at Least Twice. Marek Torčík

Forgetting is often more difficult than remembering

At 3:37, the hero of the novel is awakened by a phone call - a night conversation with his mother raises a wave of memories. It takes him back to his teenage years, to a small Czech town, to the experiences of a young queer boy growing up in a conservative industrial environment, in a family that does not have extra money.

From the memories emerges a world that punishes for being different. The hero literally decomposes his own memory - he gets memories of his mother, father and grandfather, of bullying, alcoholism and acceptance of a different sexual orientation. He disassembles not only his own memories, but also a kind of collective memory of the entire family.

The hero notices something in the memories. Everything happens at least twice.