Trust comes slowly, but they eventually learn to work as a team.
Although from different worlds, they share a similar sensibility. The book is narrated in alternating chapters by Cameron’s two sympathetic young heroes, Sam and Beck. All that’s required is patience, time, and the cold-blooded willingness to do whatever it takes, no matter who gets hurt. By combining social commentary, political manifesto, world-building, and youthful idealism, Cameron illustrates how easily the pendulum can swing from a society that remembers too little to one that knows too much, and how those in power can manipulate either scenario to their own ends. The ensuing adventure story is as compelling and well-written as Cameron’s earlier volume in the series, the number-one New York Times bestseller, The Forgetting. But the rulers of the Knowing have no intention of Forgetting and will do anything to maintain the status quo. If Sam can uncover the secret to Forgetting, she can end the emotional pain experienced by the Knowing-a pain that often leads the weakest members to suicide-and break their elitist stranglehold on society. They are served by a village full of oppressed and brutalized tradespeople who live Outside. The Knowing are privileged but psychologically damaged cave-dwellers who inhabit the Underneath. What he finds instead is Sam, on a brave but foolhardy mission to balance the scales within her society. What Beck expects to find are ruins, pottery shards, and manuscripts. In The Knowing, eighteen-year-old Beckett Rodriguez has arrived, along with his anthropologist parents and other scientists and military leaders, to discover once and for all what has become of the lost colony.
A second ship sent to find them decades later was likewise lost. But once they reached their destination, the colonists lost contact with Earth. The goal was “to regress rather than advance” as a way to restore harmony between humanity and the natural environment-a harmony mission leaders believed had been lost on Earth. Sam lives on a planet colonized by Earth hundreds of years earlier through the Canaan Project, a mission designed to establish a society void of technology. “What have we done to be punished with this life?” Photo: Rusty Russell When you cannot forget, pain is a fire that never stops burning,” Sam says. Samara is one of “the Knowing,” people who remember everything they have ever experienced: “I saw die, and I have lived that death a thousand times. As sharp and fresh as the day they were written,” explains Samara Archiva, the eighteen-year-old protagonist of Sharon Cameron’s latest YA fantasy, The Knowing.
“My memories are like words piled on words on pages that are infinite in ink that is indelible.
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