Most residents accept the disappearance, discard the object if possible, then continue with their lives. The disappearances have become such an integral, accepted part of life that each subsequent disappearance garners little response. Whenever something disappears, the residents lose all affective ties, memories, and even understanding of whatever the object was. The island’s residents always have a sense of when something is about to go, even if they never know what it will be. The disappearances range from mundane objects, such as hats or perfume, to wildlife like roses and birds. The unnamed island of Yoko Ogawa’s novel, The Memory Police (originally published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into English by Stephen Snyder in 2019), is a hazy, unsettling place where things inexplicably disappear.
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