Giu is a cleaner, the owner of A Fresh Start, and he cleans away the unpleasant memories that have adhered to his customers' personal possessions. Giu has an unusual handicap in this world; he's memory-blind. He's not able to feel or read even his own memories on objects, and that created a challenge for his parents in teaching him their trade. Yet it also gives him certain advantages; he doesn't feel the pains of the bad memories he's scraping away.
Beatrice is hyper-sensitive, and makes a very good living doing forensic readings of memories attached to items involved in legal cases.
Clara has a fairly normal level of memory sensitivity, and after a bad breakup with her former boyfriend, wants to rid their shared items that he left behind of the painful memories. For this, she turns to Giu.
But Clara and Beatrice are sisters, and has an old, four-color pen that holds a memory that's at the heart of what binds them together.
When Beatrice invites Clara to lunch, and hands Clara that pen, Clara experiences that memory again, in full, and has something to think about that might change her mind.
It's an interesting, thoughtful, and touching story.
Recommended.
I bought this audiobook.
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