Translated from English by Catherine Ego

Never forget follows the fates of Virgil Moody, the white son of a Georgia plantation owner who believes he has disavowed slavery, and Tamsey Lewis, a freed slave trying to reach Canada. Their paths cross in Indiana in 1850, as the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.

Never forget raises the question of guilt, both individual and collective, in a country built on the backs of slaves. Is it possible to preserve a part of goodness in a perverse system?

The novel portrays the United States in the mid-19th century, a country torn between slavery in the South and the promise of freedom in the North, between the agricultural age and the industrial age, between the Atlantic coast and the expanding American West. Moody and Tamsey discover that freedom offers little comfort without security and trust.