MEM

"With her dizzying concept, richly imagined narrator, ornate setting, and first-rate storytelling, Morrow offers an epiphany for readers of speculative fiction with echoes of ideas explored in films like Blade Runner and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The defiant story of an impossible enigma who only yearns to be a real girl." -Kirkus Reviews
"Morrow's debut is ambitious and insightful, raising questions about memory, trauma, and humanity. The novel is at its best when it presents Elsie at her most human, forcing the real ones around her to reckon with what her personhood means for theirs." -Publishers Weekly
"MEM is a haunting instant classic of the Flowers for Algernon ilk; spare, beautiful, and intensely powerful. This book was unputdownable." -BookRiot
"MEM is an unusual first novel set in an alternate past that brings a powerful vision to bear on the horrors (and opportunities) of trying to establish your own identity in a world that makes no space for you... Morrow drives her premise to a memorable conclusion about who shapes whom in the endless laboratory experiment of being alive." -Los Angeles Times
"MEM is a short, satisfying work made poignant by Elsie's voice... Elsie holds up a mirror to her human counterparts, and the reader as well." -The Washington Post
"A new classic, an extraordinary work of careful craftsmanship and intense compression. Bethany C. Morrow has written a jewel of a book: a tiny object refracting light in all directions." -Locus Magazine