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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
About this listen
MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished listening to it. Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete.
The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source-zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault. What happens next is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Debut novelist Bethany Morrow has created an allegory for our own time, exploring profound questions of ownership and how they relate to identity, memory, and history, all in the shadows of Montreal's now forgotten slave trade.
©2018 Bethany C. Morrow (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about MEM
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- 02-06-2023
Intriguing
Interesting. A world we know but don’t know. It seems set in our world but then it isn’t our past. Are we made up of our memories? How do they shake us. Elsie is a girl or is she? Is she a fading memory or something else?
Some bits confusing. A couple of times I had to go back because I missed some pieces of information and you don’t want to do that to solve what is happening. Definitely worth listening to the end.
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