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Remember Me by Estelle Laure
4.0
Something is not right on Blue Owens' seventeenth birthday. Her art teacher seems mad at her. Her grandmother and best friends are oddly gentle, timid. Her backpack is filled with orange juice which everyone keeps reminding her to drink.
Then there's the note to meet someone on a little shuttle bus outside of her small ski town Owl Nook, New Mexico.
When a stranger named Adam gets on the bus, Blue starts to put the pieces together. The boyfriend--Adam Mendoza--she doesn't remember, the painful loss she's desperate to forget.
Following the clues brings Blue to a doctor to who can help her get back the memories she asked to have removed. But Blue will have to move through the memories herself--process the joys and the sorrows that have been erased--if she wants to get back to herself in Remember Me (2022) by Estelle Laure.
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Blue and her family are white. Adam's family is Latinx and one of Blue's best friends, Jack, is nonbinary. The linear story includes a larger story within the story as Blue rediscovers her lost memories making for an interesting structure and unique reading experience.
Laure's prose is imbued with a deep and abiding love for Blue's New Mexico landscape and its natural wonders. The speculative fiction framework is used well to tell Blue's story although the greater ramifications of memory erasures are not fully explored in the story outside of Blue's immediate circle.
Blue moves inexorably toward the memories she's tried to forget as she and readers put together the pieces of Blue's past. Moments of sweetness with Adam and her friends contrast against the sharper loss--and grief--as Blue understands everything that has been lost.
Set in 2031 Remember Me is an eerie and powerful story about moving through grief and making it to the other side.
Possible Pairings: The Leaving by Tara Altebrando, No One Here is Lonely by Sarah Everett, Loud Awake and Lost by Adele Griffin, Edited by Barry Lyga, The Program by Suzanne Young, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Then there's the note to meet someone on a little shuttle bus outside of her small ski town Owl Nook, New Mexico.
When a stranger named Adam gets on the bus, Blue starts to put the pieces together. The boyfriend--Adam Mendoza--she doesn't remember, the painful loss she's desperate to forget.
Following the clues brings Blue to a doctor to who can help her get back the memories she asked to have removed. But Blue will have to move through the memories herself--process the joys and the sorrows that have been erased--if she wants to get back to herself in Remember Me (2022) by Estelle Laure.
Find it on Bookshop.
Blue and her family are white. Adam's family is Latinx and one of Blue's best friends, Jack, is nonbinary. The linear story includes a larger story within the story as Blue rediscovers her lost memories making for an interesting structure and unique reading experience.
Laure's prose is imbued with a deep and abiding love for Blue's New Mexico landscape and its natural wonders. The speculative fiction framework is used well to tell Blue's story although the greater ramifications of memory erasures are not fully explored in the story outside of Blue's immediate circle.
Blue moves inexorably toward the memories she's tried to forget as she and readers put together the pieces of Blue's past. Moments of sweetness with Adam and her friends contrast against the sharper loss--and grief--as Blue understands everything that has been lost.
Set in 2031 Remember Me is an eerie and powerful story about moving through grief and making it to the other side.
Possible Pairings: The Leaving by Tara Altebrando, No One Here is Lonely by Sarah Everett, Loud Awake and Lost by Adele Griffin, Edited by Barry Lyga, The Program by Suzanne Young, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind