This paper focuses on reclaiming lost identityboth collectively and individuallythrough remembering the traumatic events in three novels: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep (2011), and Bothina El-Eisa's Aisha Descends to Underworld (2012).Trauma affects identity formation in which traumatic experience creates a fragmented identity since the traumatic event ...