The Memory Collectors: A Novel
- Author: Kim Neville
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 11:48:29
Synopsis
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, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s 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 Ev’s 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 us—contained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objects—and uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny things—sometimes they gather darkness.
Chapters
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021 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter15
Duration: 18min -
022 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter16
Duration: 06min -
023 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter17
Duration: 11min -
024 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter18
Duration: 10min -
025 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter19
Duration: 12min -
026 TheMemoryCollectors After
Duration: 07min -
027 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter20
Duration: 15min -
028 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter21
Duration: 15min -
029 TheMemoryCollectors Before
Duration: 08min -
030 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter22
Duration: 11min -
031 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter23
Duration: 16min -
032 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter24
Duration: 11min -
033 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter25
Duration: 10min -
034 TheMemoryCollectors After
Duration: 08min -
035 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter26
Duration: 15min -
036 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter27
Duration: 11min -
037 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter28
Duration: 12min -
038 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter29
Duration: 17min -
039 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter30
Duration: 15min -
040 TheMemoryCollectors Chapter31
Duration: 09min