Gema

The life of a forty-something-year-old writer goes smoothly, between her two children and a relationship that seems about to end. But that reasonably placid existence is shaken by the reappearance of a ghost from the past in the form of a sudden memory: Gem. Gema was a schoolmate who died of leukemia at the age of fifteen, one of the two deaths that marked her childhood; the other was her father's, but he had lived a lifetime, while Gema left early. What existence would she have had? Who would she have become? When did she last see her? Was he able to say goodbye to her? Why has time been diluting the memory of her dead friend? Trying to rescue Gema from oblivion, the narrator begins an investigation that will lead her to meet with old friends who also knew her, to look for a group photo of the class, to visit the school, to trace obituaries in a newspaper, to investigate about what happened to the restaurant that the girl's parents had...