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Yoko Ogawa: The Memory Police (2019, Pantheon Books) 4 stars

**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, …

Review of 'The Memory Police' on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

Really strange book. Good characters, but in the end the story is so abstract and lacking any explanation that it was kind of a frustrating read. I appreciated the message (at least that I took away), though: the default/actionless path can be more dangerous than activism.