Novel: The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai
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“The past defines us as much as the present.
By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was.
Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.”
- Arlene J. Chai, The Last Time I Saw Mother
The Last Time I Saw Mother
by Arlene J. Chai
Paperback, 352 pages
Published on May 13th, 1997
Published by Ballantine Books
The Last Time I Saw Mother itself is a sweet and poetic tale, hoping to deliver a message to this bitter world that there is no such thing as a perfect life. It may just seem so otherwise as we see people separate from their past. We see them as who they are today, ignoring who they were. Ignoring what they've been through.
Thelma calls for Caridad as she is ready to free her solitary soul by releasing the wild truth that she caged along with all the other miserable memories.
Our past is as an individual is interesting. You may call it yours but it isn't. It's a puzzle - a medley of experiences - and when you look closely at a piece, you realize that you share that bit with someone else. That the piece isn't yours alone. That your past was held together by millions of pieces. Pieces that didn't belong to you in the first place.
After all, do we not belong in each other's stories?
It's amazing that when combined, the past of three different women defines who Caridad is. As she listens to the tales of these women and slowly, she begins to know who she really is. What is reflected in the tales of different women and learns that maybe there is light in times of darkness.
And perhaps, there's always hope, just waiting to be found.
And perhaps, there's always hope, just waiting to be found.
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