With their food running out and no news of the world beyond the hospital doors, they hatch a plan for their survival, with possibly immune Neffy tapped to lead their way.Įerie in its coverage of empty streets and flashes of violence, the novel moves through the immediate challenges in the aftermath of a disaster, though also pausing to let Neffy entertain memories of before: of words she wished she’d said to those she loved of salt water summers and the comfort of family. When she wakes, it’s to the realization that only a few fellow volunteers remain around her, and their desperation has grown. Neffy’s luck is short: society blinks out just after she takes the virus in. Desperate and in mourning, she signs on for a vaccine trial with a high promised payout. When a pandemic strikes, bringing with it chaos, it finds Neffy with a debt to pay. But aquariums are not safe spaces for those who identify too much with restricted beings. She met an octopus while snorkeling in the Aegean Sea it sparked her love of cephalopods and led her to pursue a degree in marine biology. In her childhood, Neffy split her time between her father’s Greek island and her mother’s United Kingdom haunts. A woman once undone by empathy now finds that it could be her salvation in Claire Fuller’s stunning postapocalyptic novel The Memory of Animals.
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