Memento Nora by Angie Smibert. Release date: April 1st 2011. Published by Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.
Why am I pining for Memento Nora?
It's an interesting premise for a novel, a pill that could make one forget everything bad that has happened. What does it do to a person to forget all the bad things? Isn't both good and bad experiences what shapes a person? Is it good just to forget those things that are sad? I know I would love to read the authors take on these things. Since the main character spits out this pill I guess she, at least to a certain extent, agrees that one should keep all memories good or bad.
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Synopsis(borrowed from the Memento homepage):
Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother, a frequent forgetter, has been frequently forgetting. Nora secretly spits out the pill and holds on to her memories. The memory of the bombing as well as her mother’s secret and her budding awareness of the world outside her little clique make it increasingly difficult for Nora to cope. She turns to two new friends, each with their own reasons to remember, and together they share their experiences with their classmates through an underground comic. They soon learn, though, they can’t get away with remembering.
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