Even members of the ruling Council lose their pasts, but within days, they are back to rationing the food and punishing anyone who goes beyond the wall that surrounds the city. Most of these books, however, contain not truth but whatever the author wishes reality to be, and they certainly don’t contain the events leading up to the day of Forgetting, during which the residents of Canaan commit the foulest of crimes knowing that everyone will forget soon enough. Every twelve years, the people of Canaan forget their lives-the memories of parents, siblings, children, occupations are all erased, with only a book documenting their former lives to remind them.
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