The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction and widely heralded novels in

and widely heralded novels in recent years

bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author

and poignant about these recent upheavals

trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything

Germs and Steel

The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction and widely heralded novels inFinalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are