What We Remember

Sarah Echavarre, author of Three More Months, returns with a novel about hope, grief, the force of memory, and the ties that hold a family together. Isabel Myles is a hospital chaplain, but for two years and two months she has been living with the aftermath of a traumatic event. She has gone silent, ignoring calls and pulling away from her family, her friends, and her coworkers. Her faith has dimmed as well. Her younger sister, Chantel, is the one connection she has kept, and otherwise Isabel gets through each day by letting the past slip away.

That changes when she takes a summer job as a home caregiver for Opal, a dementia patient who is losing her grip on her own memories. Isabel grows deeply attached to Opal's fading world and to Opal's grieving grandson, Evan. As those bonds deepen, she becomes more willing to reconnect with people from both her past and her present.

She reaches out to her closest friend and begins to repair the rift with her estranged parents. With Evan, she starts to feel emotions she believed were gone for good. Yet the trauma she has kept buried for so long is also resurfacing, and what she discovers may alter the course of her life once again. This time, she will not have to confront it alone.