But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen-or not seen-has informed her lens on the world her entire life. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” “Soul-stretching, breathtaking…A game-changing gift to readers.” - Booklist (starred review)įrom Chloé Cooper Jones-Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient-a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. In this polyphonic tale, author Jo Harkin raises provocative questions about the nature of memory, through characters who confront new knowledge about themselves and a need for answers, meaning, connection, and story. Into these characters lives comes Noor, an emotionally closed-off psychologist at the memory removal clinic in London, who begins to suspect her glamorous boss Louise of serious wrongdoing.Ĭlever and propulsive, Tell Me an Ending is a speculative novel exploring what the world would be like if we were able to wipe away our worst moments. Oscar, a handsome young man with almost no memories at all, travels the world in a constant state of fear.
William, a former police inspector in England, struggles with PTSD, the breakdown of his marriage, and his own secret family history. Mei, a troubled grad school drop-out in Kuala Lumpur, wonders why she remembers a city she’s never visited.
Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever.įinn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror in this thrilling dystopian debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to contend with what they tried to forget, and the dissenting doctor who seeks to protect her patients from further harm.
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