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Soneela Nankani
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.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Some reviewers object to the romance, but I think in this case that relationship is an integral part of the plot. Still, if you have a low tolerance for sugar this may not be the book for you.
For meditations on what makes a memory, what makes identity, and what makes a person, do read!
Memory and selfhood
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The narration is very breathy and close to the mic. When characters are talking, she does an excellent job at sounding like different people with different emotions. However, when narrating the main character's thoughts (most of the book), she stays close to the mic with a repetitive cadence and breathy, desperate tone. As someone averse to close talkers and mouth sounds, it made for an uncomfortable listening experience.
Avoid if you don't like ASMR
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Entertaining and nice niche
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Unusual striking and beautiful
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It was ok
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For fans of Klara and the Sun
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What I wanted "Klara and the Sun" to be.
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