Book Overview
From beloved author of Rook comes a brilliant and genre-bending exploration of truth and memory, love and loss in this remarkable story of a civilization that undergoes a collective forgetting.What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories -- of parents, children, love, life, and self -- are lost. Unless they have been written.In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence -- before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0545945216
ISBN13:9780545945219
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:Scholastic Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.13 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 5.6" x 8.3"
Age Range:13 to 17 years
Grade Range:Grades 8 to 12
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Solid YA with brilliant twist!
Published by PetaAshleigh , 28 days ago
Though a little slow to start, the world building was necessary for what came later… I’m glad I stuck with it because, my goodness, did I throughly enjoy the revelations, the plot twists and how is was all so intricately tied together at the end!!
What a quirky and unique concept this book offers! A forgotten world by a forgetting people. Disappearances, betrayal, abandonment, murder, secrets and conspiracy… Is their history forgotten, hidden or both?
Full of intrigue with a spellbinding world that is meticulously unraveled for us one thread at a time. It’s definitely a YA so has a few little, typical teenage moments but overall, it’s a creative, unique and compelling fictional world you can get thoroughly lost in with likeable characters and great twists.
I feel like this would make an excellent movie! Here’s hoping the sequel is equally good 👌🏼
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