At the intersection of histories, personal and national, award-winning novelist, Sylvia Maultash Warsh, tells an engrossing story of evil and good, loss and love. The Queen of Unforgetting is a mystery as well as a history. It is cleverly plotted and many layered. The main character, Mel, is an ambitious but troubled graduate student in English at the University of Toronto. She is preparing a thesis proposal for Northrop Frye on a poem about Jesuit martyr, Jean de Brebeuf. She takes a summer job at one of Canada's national historic sites, Sainte Marie among the Hurons in Midland, Ontario, two hours north of Toronto. As she learns more about Brebeuf and 17th-century Canadian history, Mel also faces her own wrongdoings in the immediate past and her parents' terrible suffering in World War II. Mel explores the meaning of sacrifice and truth. She also finds love.