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MEM

By: Bethany C. Morrow
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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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. African American Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Science Fiction
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Is a cute wee story that I expected more out of but enjoyed none the less.
From the synopsis I was expecting it to ask some serious questions and to get some answers but the story kinda just shrugs and spends a lot of time on the love story and telling you how amazing the MC is. Was expecting a story that broke my heart and got a cute little love story instead.

Cute novella that doesn’t make you think too hard

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Such a cool concept, so wasted. Almost nothing happens in this book. The narration is so lackluster. The main character so whiny, I kept rolling my eyes. I struggled to finish it despite it being so short.

Unfortunately really boring

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Reminiscent of 'Never Let Me Go', poignant, sensitive, beautiful. Well written, narrated-recommending for bookclub.

I'll listen again and again to this book!

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The tone of the narration was a bit tiring and I found myself losing interest in the story toward the end. The story is good, original… maybe with a different tone I would have enjoyed it more

Original story!

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Interesting premise for a story but I couldn’t get past the overly mannered narration, sorry

Mixed

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