num_pages: 403
description: What isn't written isn't remembered. Even your crimes.Nadia lives in the city of Canaan where life is safe and structured hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting a day of no remorse when each person's memories  of parents children love life and self  are lost. Unless they have been written.In Canaan your book is your truth and your identity and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan she discovers truths about herself and Gray the handsome glassblower that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence  before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.
language: English
title: The Forgetting
publisher: Scholastic Press