The Memory They Let Me Keep

About this book

Aboard the generation ship Meridian's Promise, seventy-nine years into an eighty-year voyage toward the ocean world of Thalassa, an aging archivist named Solenne Ferro begins recording the true story of her youth for the granddaughter she has never fully known. Officially, Solenne is the keeper of the ship's memory—the woman who decides what six generations of travelers are allowed to remember. Unofficially, she has spent sixty years living inside a story she is no longer certain is true. As she tells her granddaughter June about the reactor engineer she loved at nineteen, a man from the wrong deck in a ship divided by caste and ration, the retelling keeps slipping: dates that don't match the ship's logs, a face described two different ways, a silence where a name should be. June, facing her own impossible choice between the safe path chosen for her and the harder one she wants, begins digging through sealed archives to learn what her grandmother's mind was made to forget. Spanning six decades and two love stories that mirror and diverge, this is a novel about the memories we are allowed to keep, the family we are given versus the family we choose, and what it costs to tell the truth when your own mind has been edited against you.

Book details

Genres:

Classic Romance, Science Fiction, Family Drama

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-05

Content rating:

PG-13