The Forgetting

From beloved author of Rook comes a brilliant and genre-bending exploration of truth and memory, love and loss in this remarkable story of a civilization that undergoes a collective forgetting.

What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories -- of parents, children, love, life, and self -- are lost. Unless they have been written.In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence -- before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 09/13/2016
ISBN: 9780545945219
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.40d

Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2016
School Library Journal 06/01/2016 pg. 106
Publishers Weekly 06/13/2016
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
BookPage 09/01/2016
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2016 pg. 65
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2016 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2017 pg. 121 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 185039 / Forgetting
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16