"A page-turner of impending doom, that makes time for the complexities of human relationships"

"Reddy's accomplished debut deftly blends past and present, romance and tragedy, social realism and self exploration, along with a present-day woman's search to better understand her coal executive father - and the workings of her own heart."

Booklife Reviews (Lightning Bolt)

"Brilliant pacing, characterization, and imagery. That You Remember is a universally worthy, socioeconomic tour-de-force. It is fiction resonating as fact."

"Reddy has given us a landscape so dramatically rendered, we can almost walk around in it... That You Remember is an ode to a region, an elegy for a tidal wave of destruction, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike."

"Raising a work of romance and rural fiction to an impressive level of literally excellence, That You Remember... is an especially and unreservedly recommended pick for community library
Literary Fiction collections."

A pile of coal with the words " remember " on it.

Synopsis

In 2019, Aleena Rowan, adrift in the wake of a failed marriage, receives a box of her father's desk diaries from the years he worked as a coal executive. She expects to find nothing more than the cost of business lunches and meeting notes. Instead, she finds a mysterious name, Sara, scrawled on a slip of paper in her father's handwriting.

Frank Rowan met Sara Stone while fishing on a frigid January day, and sees her again waiting tables at Otter Creek's only restaurant. It is 1970, and Frank and Sara's relationship grows despite the impossible distance between a New York corner office and a Kentucky coal hollow. Initially, Sara sees Frank as her ticket to a better life, but other forces compete with her dreams - like protecting her town from the increasingly perilous coal slurry dam.

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