The Memory Police

TWs: confinement, kidnapping, sexual assault, police brutality, natural disaster (aftermath of)

Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.

What happens when you lose memories, the objects that once held meaning, and they all disappear?

Major props to the translator, Stephen Snyder, for providing such a translation that pierces and kept me going! In this odd situation, where objects and memories disappear one by one, with no explanation as to how it happens, the dystopian society provides immense tension as we follow the narrator and her story.

The opposites meet their fate at the end and leave it open for the reader, which may be frustrating. But perhaps there is still hope out there through what is kept hidden and safe.

Other quotes:
I clutched the packet and the envelope to my chest and started up the stairs, feeling the warmth of the old man's body still lingering in the objects.'Men who start by burning books end by burning the men.''Our memories have been battered by the disappearances, and even now when it's almost too late, we still don't realize the importance of the things that have been lost.'