It’s a unique book that will be interpreted differently by each person who reads it. I like the setting of the isolated island to the absence of names for the characters. It’s gives a detached feeling to the book because the situation of the memory police erasing items from the island is more important than the characters themselves. They’re just pawns in an unfortunate place in which we learn  about how they deal with each disappearance. The story has many inconsistencies. For example the police erased the ferry. If the ferry is non existent then why does she ask the old man about it? She shouldn’t know what a ferry is, like how she can’t remember a lot of items in the past. I just ignored the inconsistency and accepted that she’s selective of what she knows which can confuse the reader.