Whether the author meant this or not, Gui’s plight in this world could be synonymous to dementia or Alzheimer’s. Are we really human if we forget our past? What happens when everything becomes a dream? In a world where recalling memories from objects is commonplace, and someone like Gui (who’s memory is similar to most people in the real world) is unusual, it brings about questions of personal humanity. Just those mere questions lure me into stories like this. What if that memento caries the memories of your dead grandmother? Are stories really forgotten?
It’s a part of the human condition, I suppose, to be interested in these types of things. I have always been fond of stories that have to do with memories and how they attach themselves to items and people. Perhaps not everything should be forgotten after all. But upon meeting Gui, and learning he can hardly remember anything, as well as an encounter with her sister that sparks memories deep in her past, Clara wonders if she is doing the right thing.
Clara wants to forget, and thus ventures to visit Gui, a young man who runs a “cleaning shop” that wipes away memory residue. That is the case with two sisters, Clara and Beatrice, who have a hypersensitivity to memories greater than most others. I bought this audiobook.Imagine if you could detect memories in everyday objects. It's an interesting, thoughtful, and touching story. When Beatrice invites Clara to lunch, and hands Clara that pen, Clara experiences that memory again, in full, and has something to think about that might change her mind. But Clara and Beatrice are sisters, and has an old, four-color pen that holds a memory that's at the heart of what binds them together. Clara has a fairly normal level of memory sensitivity, and after a bad breakup with her former boyfriend, wants to rid their shared items that he left behind of the painful memories. Beatrice is hyper-sensitive, and makes a very good living doing forensic readings of memories attached to items involved in legal cases. Yet it also gives him certain advantages he doesn't feel the pains of the bad memories he's scraping away. He's not able to feel or read even his own memories on objects, and that created a challenge for his parents in teaching him their trade. Giu has an unusual handicap in this world he's memory-blind. Giu is a cleaner, the owner of A Fresh Start, and he cleans away the unpleasant memories that have adhered to his customers' personal possessions.
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