By Larissa IrankundaFeb 1st, 2021, 5:34 pm The prologue of The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville is a kinesthetic experience, with the author weaving you into the world of Evelyn through all six senses: her languid touches, the smells in the air, the taste of dust on her lips, the gaze she casts around the barn she’s in, the robust laughter of her father … the emotions she feels trapped in every object around her. It’s a subtle twist that doesn’t fully hit you as a reader until the following chapters, when you realize that the world that Evelyn inhabits (and soon Harriet, as we’re introduced to her) embodies a deeper dimension, one that’s intrinsically linked to the echoes of emotion left behind on the objects people cherish the most. When their paths cross through an unusual set of circumstances, they decide to put their abilities together to create something poignant: a museum of memory.