The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna

Like so many novels about recent conflicts, I found this tale of the aftermath of civil war in Sierra Leone to be a powerful, moving, and memorable book with important things to say about human potential for both violence and healing, but am unable to honestly say that I loved it - it was ultimately too unsettling to be one I'd return to for an enjoyable re-read. The story line that stuck with me most was that of the psychiatric patient whose fugue states are an escape from the awful knowledge that the soldier who her daughter survived by marrying was the same man who had murdered her husband.