On first glance, this seems a minor thing - but this does not mean she is ordinary or has a common face or just isn't all that interesting. The peculiarity of the protagonist of the book, the eponymous Hope, is that she is not memorable. Claire North has a knack for giving her characters depth and feeling and normalcy, while simultaneously providing them one isolating and inalienable oddity that makes them other and apart from the rest of humanity. I found this book engrossing almost immediately. On the flip side, it was bittersweet to realize that her younger sister (who had a mental disability) could remember her and when they reconnect later in the book, you feel a sliver of hope for human connection. Hope sitting outside of her parents' house and looking in, running through how she could interact with her mother, yet knowing they would not remember her, was incredibly sad. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? I haven't read it in print, but the narrator was excellent and many internal dialogs seem like the kind of material that works better spoken then read. Would you consider the audio edition of The Sudden Appearance of Hope to be better than the print version? Thought-provoking, heartbreaking, memorable
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