What if memory were no longer private, but programmable?
When Patricia travels to her grandfather’s estate after his disappearance, expecting to grieve in solitude, she instead uncovers artefacts of his final work: a chamber where music and ancestral memory combine, drawn into dangerous relation.
Lucas Vireaux was a composer and recluse who believed memory was enacted through rhythm and geography. Leaving behind a manuscript shaped by grief, and an invention capable of opening consciousness to buried lives, Patricia must reckon with the consequences of his creation. As she is drawn into the lives of ancestral tribes whose rituals reveal the earliest grammar of human belonging, she begins to understand why Lucas hid his work.
Caught between deep prehistory and a precarious near future, That Which Remembers Us explores questions of inheritance and the human refusal to let love become corrupted data.
“That Which Remembers Us is a haunting speculative novel that explores grief, technology and the power of memory in a world threatened by forgetting. Lyrical, atmospheric and deeply reflective, Carlos Alberto Alonso crafts a multisensory story about what we inherit, what we lose and the traces people leave behind.” – Read full review.