Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel, "Never Let Me Go," is set in an alternate late 1990s England. The story is narrated by Kathy H., a 31-year-old carer, who reflects on her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham boarding school with her friends, Ruth and Tommy. The novel gradually reveals the unsettling truth: the students are clones raised solely to become organ donors. As their lives unfold into training as carers and eventually becoming donors, they grapple with themes of friendship, memory, mortality, and what it means to be human in a world that views them as expendable. The narrative follows their quest for understanding and a rumored possibility of deferring their fate.