Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore — Ray Loriga

This dreamlike dystopian novel “shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals' seeming power to assuage all ills” (Booklist).
 
Set in the very near future, this is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars and beyond to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as The Company. What he has is a drug that erases memory. You can choose your oblivion, be it one mistake or a lifetime of pain. But things become hazy when our hero begins sampling the goods and reaches the point where he can't even remember what it is he cannot remember.
 
A pitch-perfect piece for our times filled with hypnotic prose, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore is both a riveting story and a thoughtful exploration of the drug culture that surrounds us, the nature of forgetfulness, and the implacable tyranny of emotions -- questioning what it means to be human when everything, including human identity, can be bought.
 
“Part crime novel, part political allegory, part love story . . . Compelling.” -- The New York Times Book Review