These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

Synopsis

Best Book of 2025 by Electric Literature, PEN America, Debutiful * Top First Novel of 2025 by Booklist * Spotify Editors' Pick * Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction "Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us brilliantly inventive weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind?

Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma's braided memory dispatches explore a future in which the shifting concepts of safety, loyalty, and truth lead nowhere except condemnation." -- Tessa Hulls, author of Pulitzer Prize-winner F eeding Ghosts For fans of Cloud Atlas and The Power, a hauntingly beautiful and prescient debut set in a future where a renamed China is the sole global superpower.

When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me stories of a world before memor…