Memento Nora by Angie Smibert

In the future, it doesn't pay to remember.

In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC--a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take the pill that will erase it. But at TFC, a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember.

With newfound friends Micah and Winter, Nora makes a comic book of their memories called Memento. It's an instant hit, but it sets off a dangerous chain of events. Will Nora, Micah, and Winter be forced to take the Big Pill that will erase their memories forever?

-Amazon product description.

Yet another great book in the dystopia craze, Memento Nora sucked me in instantly. Though it is only around 180 pages long, it is a fully realized world full of terrorist attacks, paranoia, and government control. At the center of it all is young Nora who, after one traumatic experience, has her whole world turned upside down. Smibert is currently working on the sequel.

-Sam.