"And he said, 'Whatever happened to her?' And I had to tell him about her death." "And he said, 'I can't remember her name,' and I told him her name," she says. One day, she showed her father a photo of her sister, who died at the age of 28. "He didn't have Alzheimer's, but he began to lose pieces of his memory, the way people do as they age," she recalls. Lowry came up with the idea of a scary, sterile world where nearly everyone takes drugs to suppress their memories and emotions after her father was put in a nursing home. It's assigned reading in thousands of schools.
The Giver swept up nearly every prestigious prize for young adult literature, including the Newbery Medal and the William Allen White Award. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges. Refreshing, right? But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. Just for a second, imagine a world without war, conflict or grief. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Giver Author Lois Lowry
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