The Great Forgetting

In James Renner's genre-bending novel, The Great Forgetting, history teacher Jack Felter returns to his hometown of Franklin Mills, Ohio, to care for his father, who is battling dementia. Haunted by memories of a lost love and the mysterious disappearance of his best friend, Tony, Jack is drawn into a perilous search aided by a paranoid boy named Cole. Their quest takes them from Manhattan to hidden locations in the Catskills and ultimately to a forgotten island connected to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, unraveling a conspiracy known as the Great Forgetting that questions the value of memory versus oblivion.