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A review by carrienation76
MEM by Bethany C. Morrow
5.0
This book was so damn good - I'm 2 minutes from screaming into a goddam pillow. Ahhh!
Set in the 1920's, this speculative fiction is focused on Elsie, a perpetually 19 year old "woman" who first manifested in 1906. In this book, people can have memories extracted (at great expense) and those memories take on a physical form similar to the original person. However, these "mems" are stunted, forever relieving the emotions and actions of the memory from which they came. Elsie is an inexplicably rare mem with self-awareness and memories of her own. Whaaaa?!
The underlying questions in the book: How do our memories contribute to who we are and who we become? How does trauma impact our development? What are the repercussions of memory?
At about 180 pages, it's a fast read and so bitterly perfect.
Set in the 1920's, this speculative fiction is focused on Elsie, a perpetually 19 year old "woman" who first manifested in 1906. In this book, people can have memories extracted (at great expense) and those memories take on a physical form similar to the original person. However, these "mems" are stunted, forever relieving the emotions and actions of the memory from which they came. Elsie is an inexplicably rare mem with self-awareness and memories of her own. Whaaaa?!
The underlying questions in the book: How do our memories contribute to who we are and who we become? How does trauma impact our development? What are the repercussions of memory?
At about 180 pages, it's a fast read and so bitterly perfect.