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Samara doesn't forget. And she isn't the only one. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them.
Someone else is on their way to Canaan too . . . a spaceship from Earth is heading toward the planet, like a figment of the city's forgotten past. Beck is traveling with his parents, researchers tasked with finding the abandoned settlement effort. When Beck is stranded without communication, he will find more in Canaan than he was ever trained for. What will happen when worlds and memories, beliefs -- and truths -- collide?
Now on to the excerpt!
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
ISBN 978-0-545-94524-0
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
17 18 19 20 21
Printed in the U.S.A. 23
First edition, October 2017
Book design by Becky Terhune
Excerpt from The Knowing
I
am one of the Knowing.
I
was three years old the day my memories came. I had my arms stretched out, my
brother, Adam, flying me up and around and over his head like the bluedads that
dart through the linen fields. I was laughing. And suddenly there were voices
in the rush of air. Images. Swirling color. And so much feeling. Cold on new
skin the moment after my birth. Hunger pangs before I knew how to ask for food.
Fear. Shame. I knew the number of painted stars on the ceiling over my bed. I
knew how many pins held back my hair. I knew because I remembered.
And
then I sank, deep inside my mind, and I was two seasons younger, standing
before my mother’s chair, tears running wet on my cheeks, skin hot on the back
of my hand. “We do not show what we feel,” Mother says. “When I cannot see your
fear, there will be no slap.” And then she slaps my hand. Stinging. Again. And
again.
I
lived the memory eight more times before rising back into the present, kicking
and screaming while Adam stroked my hair. “Don’t cry, Sam.” I can hear his
voice now, soft in my memory. “You are one of the Knowing. Special. Like me.”
Fifteen
years have passed since that day, and my memories are like words piled on words
on pages that are infinite in ink that is indelible. As sharp and fresh as the
day they were written. I saw Adam die, and I have lived that death a thousand times.
I will live it ten thousand more. When you cannot forget, pain is a fire that
never stops burning.
I
am one of the Knowing. The privileged. Special.
What
have we done to be punished with this life?
from the hidden book of Samara Archiva
in the
city of New Canaan
About Sharon:
Sharon Cameron
was awarded the 2009 Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award by the Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for her debut novel, The Dark
Unwinding. When not writing Sharon can be found thumbing dusty tomes, shooting
her longbow, or indulging in her lifelong search for secret passages. She lives
with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.
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