A thought-provoking book about bad memories, their impact on our lives, and personhood. I thought the scifi element was the strongest. I didn't get into the romance aspects of the book. I really loved the scenes towards the end where Elsie the mem meets her creator/ source Dolores and sees how Dolores has been living since her extraction. I really enjoyed Elsie's and Dolores' relationship. A major hole in the plot for me was the novel being set in 1920s Canada with a Black protagonist and racism or Elsie's/Dolores' culture not coming up. Morrow explained her reasoning at the end, but that was something I would have wanted to know much earlier so I wasn't distracted while reading. It seemed odd to me because it seemed like the alternate history of the world she created could be explained in 2 paragraphs and incorporated into the book instead of being an afterword.