To The Last Page

You tend to take memory for granted and trust it implicitly. How would it be however if you could only remember yesterday, or at most yesterday and the day before? Come to that, how much do you take for granted the importance of memory when it comes to solving crime? How effective could you be as a police detective if you could only remember the previous two days, or even only the previous day? This is the world of Felicia Yap’s Yesterday , a world of Monos and Duos, where people are able to retain full memory up to the age of 23, but after that, they need to rely on written diaries and special iDiaries developed by Apple (who else?) to recall anything important that has happened in their lives. Like a murder? That’s going to make life difficult. And yet, people seem to manage, even though the difference in ability has created certain prejudices and inequality between Monos who can only remember the last day before it is erased from their memory, and Duos, who can remember twice as muc...