A provocative story with lasting impact, there's an elegance in the dread of The Memory Police, and the contrast really works as we follow characters (trying to) go through their everyday mundanes, while the inevitable doom is looming above their head. The 'story-within-story' element is a clever addition, furthering the novel's overall theme and tragic tone. The Giver by Lois Lowry is one of my all time favorites, and The Memory Police gives me a very similar post-reading sensation: sad and poetic, perfectly ambiguous (there are multiple ways one can read into/interpret various details), and will be something I revisit from time to time