The Independent - London, August 2nd, 1999
DOUBT MUST be cast upon the notion of a global village when it turns out that copies of Barbara Raskin's 1987 best-selling novel Hot Flashes have gone to ground. Out of print here and in the United States, and apparently ditched by much of the public-library system, Hot Flashes none-the-less remains well worth the hunt.
The menopausal symptom in its title also refers to its characters' sudden, recurrent memories of several decades:
More and more frequently nowadays, my hot flashes have begun to feel like urgent communiques from the interior of a vast, dark continent - fast-breaking news item...
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