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Episode: 34. Latino Books Month ft. The Memory Index by Julian R. Vaca
Description: May is Latino Books Month and we're spotlighting The Memory Index by Julian R. Vaca. In a world where memories are like currency, dreams can be a complicated business. In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones--the recollectors--need the treatment only once a day. Freya Izquierdo isn't lucky. The high school senior is a "degen" who needs artificial recall several times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories that take her to her knees, she's desperate to remember everything that will help her investigate h...