1/3/2024 0 Comments Tell me why endingAt the time of memory erasure, they agreed to have the memory of having the memory erased, erased. They have two types of clients: Those who know that they have had a memory removed and those who have no clue. Its raison d’etre as a company is to help people forget traumatic memories. The characters telling each story do not, at first, appear to be related, apart from each being involved in some form with a company called “Nepenthe.” (Note: The definition of Nepenthe, tells you everything you need to know about what this novel is about.) Nepenthe is a company with a medical facility not far out of London (coincidentally, in a fictional town situated in the same area in which I live). The Me an Ending is an ensemble novel with several interwoven points of view. What if you could remove bad memories? What Is Tell Me an Ending? Tell Me and Ending by Jo Harkin offers a similar premise. Both are excellent novels and if you haven’t read them, check them out. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, examines whether it is better to forget transgressions that are made against you, and James Smythe’s The Machineis a disturbing tale that describes a machine that can overwrite memories with new ones. Do our memories define us? A subject of many a novel, some of which are my favorite books of all time.
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