A review by alinaborger
Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu

Haydu's novel is a grief dystopia, similar to THE GIVER in that the characters think they're living in a happy place and have left sadness behind them. The world building here is oddly successful in its simplicity:

Spoiler

people tell their stories to story keepers and then those stories disappear.

This creates a meta element to the narrative since it, too, is a story. It does take a lot longer than I'd expect for the protagonist to really start questioning society, and there's no clear incident that changes those questions into demands for change--that gradualness surprised me in a MG.