Never Let Me Go
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Never Let Me Go follows Kathy as she grows from schoolgirl to young woman at Hailsham, a seemingly pleasant English boarding school. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
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Never Let Me Go is eerily deceptive in how it creeps up on you. The build up of unease is so subtle until the realization of the magnitude of what's really going on suddenly crashes down around you, and the fact that this world is so unremoved from our own is wholly unsettling.
You're following the lives of students at what seems like some sort of boarding school, all the while little hints are being tossed your way that not all is well and these aren't just your average children.
I love how the author uses the narrator's memories to tell the story and the tie-in to their significance revealed at the end.
This was the library book club pick for October and I cannot wait for discussion tomorrow.
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