But, that being said, there is plenty of food for thought in this book left for the reader to interpret and digest by themselves, which makes it a good book to return to from time to time. It started to feel like a checklist, rather than a naturally flowing sequence of events. It was structured a little bit too punctually for my taste too, with the chapters titled by the name of the character who would be taking their turn to speak from their point of view. The web between the three characters wasn't woven as tightly as I would have preferred, especially since the story was already very short. That being said, I had pretty high expectations going into the book and was left not quite satisfied. This short story was written by Ken Liu, who is an accredited American author of speculative fiction who has also published The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Legend of Luke Skywalker. I’m interested in reading the other ones in this collection and see what else these authors can come up with in such few pages.The Cleaners is a part of the Faraway series, made up of five authors including Gayle Forman and Soman Chainani who each wrote their take on a fairytale. I found it fascinating and at times some of the ways in which this world was explained to be, reminded me a little bit of the world in the Uglies trilogy. It’s to help keep people only having happy memories and for them to be able to truly forget the bad ones like they never even existed at all. This is a skill that is very valuable and sought out in the world that they live in. Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu-translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. The Cleaners follows one man whose family is in the cleaning business of removing memories from items that people no longer work there. For Clara and Beatrice, deciding what to remember reaches to the heart of their shared history.
Until her sister, Beatrice, ultrasensitive to memory, raises one that could change Clara’s mind. Clara can, and she prefers them irretrievable. Memory-blind himself, he can’t feel those wounds.
Gui is a professional cleaner at A Fresh Start, scrubbing away the unpleasant layers of memory that build up on the personal objects of his customers.
Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of everyday magic and the power of memory by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Ken Liu.
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