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A review by krystalicia_
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.25
This was so good. I could sit here on talk about how this highlights the dangers of too much government control, but let’s be real. We’re literally already in a reality where the government does what they want and our wants and needs are relegated to the sidelines.
What I DO want to talk about it is how sucked into this story I was. Are you going to read this and get an understanding of how or why the government is doing this and what their end goal is? No. But also, considering we’re following the story of just one person who is just living her life and helping one person in the only way she knows how. You see her desperately trying to help this her editor who is one of the few that can remember almost as a way to save someone like her mother. This woman is desperately trying to create a sense of normalcy and family in a world that is so inconsistent and ever changing. Like bro these people probably don’t even remember their names, but people expect them to remember why things are being disappeared and why it’s happening???
Anyway, really enjoyed it and a fun little dip into sci fi.