A review by grayola
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

3.0

Rife with all of the dystopian clichés that inspire “Orwellian” pull-quotes on the book’s jacket, this premise is actually pretty unique. The payoff seemed like it would never come but when it did, I was deeply satisfied. Throughout the book, character’s decisions—particularly the primary inciting incident and a trip to the story’s Ministry of Truth—made little sense, but there’s enough poetry in the three central relationships and the strange thrill of each new disappearance that motivated me to keep picking it up.