Samara lives in an underground city and remembers every moment of her life with perfect clarity. The Knowing takes place in New Canaan, where the opposite problem has emerged. And of course we have a ticking clock before Grey forgets her and she loses her only ally. When the 12-year Forgetting happens, he writes himself into a new life, and a new family.Īs a young adult, Nadia spends the book alongside her lover interest, Grey, trying to figure out what the Forgetting is, how people use it to manipulate their lives and why Canaan is all alone. We find out immediately that people do not do this, when Nadia (the main character) remembers her father taking the books of her mother and sisters and replacing them with books he’d written that claimed he was dead. Society demands you write everything– good and bad– so you always have a record of who you are. People carry books with them everywhere, bound to their bodies, and spend every night recording their lives. The Forgetting features is based in the city of Canaan, where every 12 years, everyone in the city forgets everything about their lives. There is some reference to the older generation, but for the most part, this series is a meditation on the idea of memory, told in the same world. The Forgetting and The Knowing are a pair of books that take place in the same world, but hundreds of years apart. TW: mention of suicidal ideation, reliving trauma What’s The Forgetting & The Knowing about?
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