About the work

In Averaunt, the state keeps a continuous copy of every citizen's memory. Nineteen-year-old auditor Ailis Verane discovers that the Office's gentlest word—entrustment—names a procedure that erases the path that made a person themselves. She has been signing.

Told through an account that marks its own holes and records what it has spent, the novel asks what separates testimony from a record—and who gets to decide.