Margot Harrison is the author of four young adult thrillers and the adult novel The Midnight Club.
[The Page 69 Test: The Killer in Me; Q&A with Margot Harrison]
At CrimeReads she tagged "six compelling fictions about the power of memory and the dangers of manipulating our own memories—or other people’s." One title on Harrison's list:
Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan KennedyRead about the other entries on the list.
In this 2006 novel, a memory drug offers a washed-up academic an escape from midlife crisis into golden moments of his past. While former zine publisher Kennedy is technically (just barely) a boomer, this book shows she had her finger on the pulse of Generation X’s “retrophilia,” as I call it in The Midnight Club.
The Page 69 Test: Confessions of a Memory Eater.
--Marshal Zeringue