A review by black_girl_reading
MEM by Bethany C. Morrow

4.0

This was a super fun read. About a “mem”, an embodied memory withdrawn from a woman’s mind to forget a traumatic event, the particular extraction seems more human than the rest. Having had a chance to love freely in 1920’s Montreal, she’s called back tot he vault to be confined and reprinted by her original. This book felt like a 1920’s film, Morrow really captured that. The book was glossy, and thoughtful, and enjoyable. I appreciated that Morrow included an author’s note at the end explaining why there was no racism in this #speculativefiction read, because I agree that it is so so nice to imagine a world without racism for your protagonist, but also grapple with the ethics of erasing a reality from a real time and place. Check this one out!