The Forgetting

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403 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-545-94521-9
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OCLC Number:
936411035

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4 stars (1 review)

Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.

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reviewed The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

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4 stars

Really enjoyed the concept of a culture dealing with collective and personal memory and forgetting. With a female lead character, I had hoped for less sexism. For instance, why is there a title system for women, such as "planter's wife" vs just "planter" while there is no "planter's husband" equivalent? Is it romantic that the male love interest repeatedly tells the female lead to come to him?

Subjects

  • Conspiracies
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Conspiracy
  • Amnesia
  • Memory
  • Friendship