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The memory collectors : a novel / Kim Neville.
"Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982157586 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 388 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Atria Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Paperback, 2021.
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| Subject: | Memory > Fiction. Emotions > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. Vancouver (B.C.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Magic realist fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Nevil | 31681010419901 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives"-- - Baker & Taylor
A woman who can sense the emotions people leave behind on objects and a woman who hoards such items meet and try to avoid the dark effects which took over a third person with similar powers. Original. 75,000 first printing. - Simon and Schuster
Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives.
Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, andâif at all possibleâdestroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouverâs Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls.
When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Evâs family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left.
The Memory Collectors casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over usâcontained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objectsâand uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny thingsâsometimes they gather darkness.
