Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr 

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Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

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Alma is convinced she has seen a tall, strange man in her yard.

Alma’s dementia  may be getting worse, but she is convinced she has seen a tall, strange man in her yard. Reader: Rakie Ayola.

Cape Town, the near future.

The memory clinic cannot cure Alma Konachek’s dementia, but it can slow it down and give her some of her memories back, captured on a series of cartridges and then retrieved on a device called a ‘remote memory simulator'.

At home, Alma has a memory wall covered with these cartridges, along with hand-written notes and a photograph of her late husband, Harold, who was a keen fossil-hunter.

But Alma’s memories are not just of interest to her.

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Alma’s dementia may be getting worse, but she is convinced she has seen a tall, strange man in her yard.

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All The Light We Cannot See which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Memory Wall is the title story from his 2010 collection.

Writer: Anthony Doerr
Reader: Rakie Ayola
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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To help with her dementia, Alma has a wall covered with cartridges that can be read by a 'remote memory simulator'. But one of these memories holds the key to a valuable secret.

Cape Town, the near future.

The memory clinic cannot cure Alma Konachek's dementia, but it can slow it down and give her some of her memories back, captured on a series of cartridges and then retrieved on a device called a 'remote memory simulator'.

At home, Alma has a memory wall covered with these cartridges, along with hand-written notes and a photograph of her late husband, Harold, who was a keen fossil-hunter.

But Alma's memories are not just of interest to her.

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