The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is just sad. The evil dystopian memory police make people forget concepts under the guise of forgetting stuff. People accept it because forgetting stuff like music boxes and novels wouldn’t make you forget music or imagination. Except it totally does and people move on without whatever it was that they forgot about. Because what are they going to do? Remember? Pshaw. One day all the roses are gone. The response is, “Welp, roses were nice. Guess I’ll forget about […]