![]() It's an interesting, thoughtful, and touching story. ![]() ![]() When Beatrice invites Clara to lunch, and hands Clara that pen, Clara experiences that memory again, in full, and has something to think about that might change her mind. Gui is a professional cleaner at A Fresh Start, scrubbing away the unpleasant layers of memory that build up on the personal objects of his customers. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer. But Clara and Beatrice are sisters, and has an old, four-color pen that holds a memory that's at the heart of what binds them together. Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of everyday magic and the power of memory by the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author Ken Liu. The Hidden Girl, The Message, and The Cleaners have also been optioned for development. Clara has a fairly normal level of memory sensitivity, and after a bad breakup with her former boyfriend, wants to rid their shared items that he left behind of the painful memories. Beatrice is hyper-sensitive, and makes a very good living doing forensic readings of memories attached to items involved in legal cases. Yet it also gives him certain advantages he doesn't feel the pains of the bad memories he's scraping away. He's not able to feel or read even his own memories on objects, and that created a challenge for his parents in teaching him their trade. Giu has an unusual handicap in this world he's memory-blind. ![]() Giu is a cleaner, the owner of A Fresh Start, and he cleans away the unpleasant memories that have adhered to his customers' personal possessions. ![]()
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