Forgetful

[close] This book won a Beverly Hills Book award in 2015. In the story, a persuasive dean from an HBCU talks Dr. Benjamin Parks into leading a seminar on cross-cultural relationships. Bright students - asking questions about the possibility of bridging across racial, gender, attraction orientation, political, and religious divides - notice he's having memory problems. Other adventures follow Ben through the worlds of family life, DC nightlife, and the life of a professional organization development (OD) consultant.

Dave Snapp writes a review on amazon.com: "Forgetful is unique. For one thing, it addresses several themes not widely available in current fiction, e.g. the working life of an organizational development practitioner from the inside, and a slice of life in Black DC. The story of Ben Park's fading marriage is presented in an even and realistic way, avoiding the frequent tendency to find winners and losers and accepting the fact that sometimes it is what it is. The nagging doubt and fear about