"Bethany C. Morrow achieves the nearly impossible feat of creating
truly new speculative fiction; reading it feels like discovery." --
BuzzFeed In Jazz Age Montreal, an underground Vault imprisons living
memories. Known as Mems, theses physical clones of other people are
doomed to experience a single memory over and over--one that belongs not
to them, but to the memory's original Source. Lacking thoughts or
personality of their own, Mems expire inside the Vault, where they are
monitored by scientists known as Bankers. That is, except for one
19-year-old Mem--Dolores Extract n. 1--who shocks the world with the
capacity to make her own memories. With the help of the doctor who
created her, Dolores is released from captivity and establishes an
independent life in the glittering city. She is a beautiful enigma,
celebrated by a public obsessed with this dangerous procedure. When she
is suddenly summoned back to the Vault, she must confront the Bankers
and her own Source to discover the ultimate truth: is she human, or not?