What the Quiet Took From Us
Adult Upmarket Speculative Fiction · 92,000 words · Querying
In a world where grief is managed by the state and memory is a resource to be rationed, soldier liaison Aya Kamara has learned to survive by hiding beneath the whispers. But when the world grows much too quiet, and a man from her past returns offering her everything she’s been told to forget, her carefully controlled world shatters.
In a world where grief is managed by the state and memory is a resource to be rationed, soldier liaison Aya Kamara has learned to survive by hiding beneath the whispers. But when the world grows much too quiet, and a man from her past returns offering her everything she’s been told to forget, her carefully controlled world shatters.
In a world where grief is managed by the state and memory is a resource to be rationed, soldier liaison Aya Kamara has learned to survive by hiding beneath the whispers. But when the world grows much too quiet, and a man from her past returns offering her everything she’s been told to forget, her carefully controlled world shatters.
What the Quiet Took From Us aims to explore themes of the Restoration Myth and what it means to be human when you lose the ability to truly connect with each other. Told through multiple POVs, including that of K.T.Y. (aka Katy), a hidden AI narrator who has been recording everything the state has erased, What the Quiet Took From Us leans to ask who gets to hold the truth when memory itself belongs to the powerful.
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The Memory Police — Yoko Ogawa
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
