This series delves into the complex nature of memory and forgetting. The protagonist, Nora, encounters a clinic designed to erase painful recollections, offering a way to move past trauma. However, a chance encounter and a shocking revelation about a suppressed memory force her to question the ethics of manufactured peace. It's a compelling exploration of what it means to remember and the courage it takes to face the truth.
"In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC -- a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take a pill to erase it so she can go on like nothing ever happened. But at TFC a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember." --page [4] of cover.
Tells, in separate voices, of a near future in which Winter Nomura has had a psychotic break, and her friend Velvet and cousin Aiden, who is visiting from his Swiss boarding school, try to uncover and fix what is seriously wrong with their society, city, and even Aiden's family.