FICTION

REMEMBER ME by Suzanne Lipsett (Mercury House: $17.95; 143 pp.). Nancy wants to be remembered. She dies and leaves behind four very young children and a husband 22 years older than herself. As the children grow up, their father shuts himself away from them and from his own despair. Even the death of his pathetic older daughter fails to stir him to action. This novel is a small symphony of discordant notes, of emotional dysfunction and sexual confusions, of minor characters who come more alive than the central figures. Each character is weird enough or compelling enough to be memorable.