Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! is a paean to the author's mid-twentieth century Bronx childhood as the sole offspring of warmly loving-if sometimes provincial, overprotective, or embarrassing-immigrant parents. It is also about the wonder of lifelong memory itself, of how the past continually offers itself up as a field to contemplate, a field of rediscovery and new discovery of one's native landscape, and of the actions, rituals, and language-with all their redolence and significance-of those long gone whom one still loves.