Recension
A Record of What Was KeptBy Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™
Length1h 42m
About this audiobook
There is a particular cold in being the one hand permitted to keep what an entire country has agreed to forget. Every ten years the nation's beginning is rewritten by law; the old account is carried down into a sealed room and never destroyed, and the people are counted forward into a cleaner story they did not choose. The archivist who performs this mercy has believed her whole life that nothing is truly lost — until a child surfaces in the record with a birth, no death, and no grave, filed cleanly out of existence by the only hand that could have done it: her own institution's. What she finds underneath is not a broken machine but a working one, and the machine has already accounted for her horror. It has not accounted for what she does once she can no longer look away.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Dystopia
Length1 hr 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
7CHAPTER SIX
2CHAPTER ONE
8CHAPTER SEVEN
3CHAPTER TWO
9CHAPTER EIGHT
4CHAPTER THREE
10CHAPTER NINE
5CHAPTER FOUR
11COLOPHON
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