A refreshing take on an already popular genre, this is an easy sell. Cameron, however, has an ace up her sleeve, and when she throws it, the whole story goes from basic to brilliant, morphing into a clever genre mash-up that manages to be a whole heckuva lot of fun as it presents complicated questions about identity, community, and reality. The Knowing by Sharon Cameron 9780545945240 Booktopia Books > Kids & Childrens Books > Children, Teenagers & Young Adults (YA) Fiction > Young Adult (YA) Fiction Book eBook 18.25 The Knowing By: Sharon Cameron 0. With its oppressive government, mysterious rules that supposedly protect its citizens, and defiant teen heroine, this seems like a simple run-through of YA dystopian tropes. Seventeen-year-old Nadia, who is unlucky enough to remember everything, flouts this restriction every chance she can get when she finds something in the woods beyond the wall that could potentially stop the Forgetting, she’s determined to find a way to put an end to the horror. Even members of the ruling Council lose their pasts, but within days, they are back to rationing the food and punishing anyone who goes beyond the wall that surrounds the city. Most of these books, however, contain not truth but whatever the author wishes reality to be, and they certainly don’t contain the events leading up to the day of Forgetting, during which the residents of Canaan commit the foulest of crimes knowing that everyone will forget soon enough. Every twelve years, the people of Canaan forget their lives-the memories of parents, siblings, children, occupations are all erased, with only a book documenting their former lives to remind them.

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