Memento Nora
| Title | Memento Nora |
| Year for Search | 2011 |
| Authors | Smibert, Angie |
| Date Published | 2011 |
| Publisher | Marshall Cavendish |
| Place Published | Tarrytown, NY |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not. |
| Additional Publishers | Originated with "Momento Nora." Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author. |
| Full Text | 2011 Smibert, Angie. Memento Nora. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish. Originated with “Momento Nora.” Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21. PSt Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not. Female author. |
