Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Mem, Bethany C. Morrow

Mem

Bethany C. Morrow

Paperback
Regular price$15.99With free membership trial$7.9950% off your first book+ Free shipping
Currently restocking. Order now to reserve your copy

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

"Bethany C. Morrow achieves the nearly impossible feat of creating truly new speculative fiction; reading it feels like discovery." -- BuzzFeed In Jazz Age Montreal, an underground Vault imprisons living memories. Known as Mems, theses physical clones of other people are doomed to experience a single memory over and over--one that belongs not to them, but to the memory's original Source. Lacking thoughts or personality of their own, Mems expire inside the Vault, where they are monitored by scientists known as Bankers. That is, except for one 19-year-old Mem--Dolores Extract n. 1--who shocks the world with the capacity to make her own memories. With the help of the doctor who created her, Dolores is released from captivity and establishes an independent life in the glittering city. She is a beautiful enigma, celebrated by a public obsessed with this dangerous procedure. When she is suddenly summoned back to the Vault, she must confront the Bankers and her own Source to discover the ultimate truth: is she human, or not?

Book Details

  • Publisher: Unnamed Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 19th, 2019
  • Pages: 188
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 4.90in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781944700867
  • Categories: • Fantasy - Historical• Science Fiction - Steampunk• Literary

About the Author

Morrow, Bethany C.: - A California native, Bethany C. Morrow spent six years living in Montreal, Quebec. Her speculative literary fiction uses a focus on character and language to engage with, comment on and investigate worlds not unlike our own. MEM is her debut novel. She currently resides in upstate New York.

More books by Bethany C. Morrow

Book Cover for: A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow
Book Cover for: So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix, Bethany C. Morrow
Book Cover for: A Chorus Rises: A Song Below Water Novel, Bethany C. Morrow
Book Cover for: Nuevos Comienzos. Un Retelling de Mujercitas, Bethany C. Morrow
Book Cover for: Cherish Farrah, Bethany C. Morrow

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: LSFRC
LSFRC
@LSFRC_
2 years

The London Science Fiction Research Community. Conveners of academic conferences, special author talks & themed reading group.

⛏️5A ⛰️Mining in the Amazon Region in Brazilian SF, Vitor Castelões Gama (@unb_oficial) 🪨The Mining Desolation: Images of Loss & Mourning in Minas Gerais, Caio Dayrell Santos & Luiza Quental 🔮The Fracked Mind: Bethany C. Morrow's Mem & the Energy Unconscious, Maggie White [15] https://t.co/rT0lAQtNIM

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Amy Suiter Clarke
Amy Suiter Clarke
@asuiterclarke
2 years

Author of psychological thrillers GIRL, 11 and LAY YOUR BODY DOWN. Minnesota ➡️ Melbourne. Twin mom; send coffee. she/her

@parabasis Mem by Bethany C. Morrow This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Caitlin Starling
Caitlin Starling
@see_starling
4 years

Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.

I’m about to dive into A SONG BELOW WATER by @BCMorrow but first I want to yell about how amazing her book MEM is. It’s one of the best, most intimate stories I’ve read about how memory shapes people, and the cloning system is brilliantly heartbreaking. https://t.co/OuVwXdKq8C https://t.co/Fb1wdq2lQk

twitter.com
Show more

Praise for this book

"MEM is a haunting instant classic of the Flowers for Algernon ilk; spare, beautiful, and intensely powerful. This book was unputdownable." --BookRiot
"A new classic, an extraordinary work of careful craftsmanship and intense compression. Bethany C. Morrow has written a jewel of a book: a tiny object refracting light in all directions." -Locus Magazine
"MEM is an unusual first novel set in an alternate past that brings a powerful vision to bear on the horrors (and opportunities) of trying to establish your own identity in a world that makes no space for you... Morrow drives her premise to a memorable conclusion about who shapes whom in the endless laboratory experiment of being alive." -Los Angeles Times
"MEM is a short, satisfying work made poignant by Elsie's voice... Elsie holds up a mirror to her human counterparts, and the reader as well." -The Washington Post
"With her dizzying concept, richly imagined narrator, ornate setting, and first-rate storytelling, Morrow offers an epiphany for readers of speculative fiction with echoes of ideas explored in films like Blade Runner and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The defiant story of an impossible enigma who only yearns to be a real girl." --Kirkus Reviews
"Morrow's debut is ambitious and insightful, raising questions about memory, trauma, and humanity. The novel is at its best when it presents Elsie at her most human, forcing the real ones around her to reckon with what her personhood means for theirs." --Publishers Weekly

What people are saying

See more