7/4/2023 0 Comments Untitled by Bethany C. Morrow![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Called back to the Vault, Elsie learns that because Dolores has reached her maximum number of Mems, she is in danger of being “reprinted,” wiping out her unique self. Now I suppose I’ll live like one,” as she struggles with her place in this strange world. ![]() But Elsie is a fully formed individual, capable of forming her own memories, the only Mem who's been allowed to live independently outside the Vault. 1,” meant to keep the memory of a car crash in 1906 from troubling her “source,” Dolores Shepherd. The story is told by a 19-year-old Mem who identifies as "Elsie," though her true designation is “Dolores Extract No. In this rendering, scientists have discovered a peculiar method of extracting memories from people and delivering them into “Mems,” half-alive creatures whose purpose is to experience the memory over and over again in a fortress called the Vault until they die. This debut novel by multigenre fabulist Morrow is a haunting exploration of memory, identity, and mortality set in a vaguely sinister alternate-reality Montreal circa 1925. A young woman’s personality is the result of a startling experimental procedure, leaving her to struggle with the question of who she really is. ![]()
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