About The Way to Remember
Set in New England at the time of the American Bicentennial, this is the poignant story of a displaced young woman struggling to figure out who she is within the context of her hometown and the carefully masked dysfunction of her family.
“Everything can be fixed by writing a check.” Words to live by for Robin Fortune’s wealthy father, until he can’t buy her way back into college after she’s expelled. Now he chooses not to speak to her anymore, but that’s just one of the out-of-whack situations Robin’s facing. At nineteen, she feels rudderless, working in a diner by day and sleeping with a buddy from high school by night – all so strange for her because she was always the one with the plan.
While her college friends plotted how to ensnare husbands, she plotted a novel, which she scratched out into a series of spiral-bound notebooks she hides in the closet. But now, there’s nothing. No vision, no future, no point. In fact, the only thing she feels she has to look forward to is that her favorite author, Maryana Capture, is paying a visit to the local Thousand Words bookstore. Robin surmises that if she can convince Maryana to help her get her novel published, she’ll finally get herself back on track. Except that life never takes a straight path in this intensely satisfying coming-of-age novel.
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Author Bio:
Martha Reynolds was born and raised in Rhode Island, and spent a year of college in Switzerland, the memories of which inspired her debut novel, CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST, and its sequels, CHOCOLATE FONDUE and BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE. She has traveled back to the country numerous times, and continues to be inspired.
She is the author of eleven novels, including the Amazon #1 bestsellers CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST and BITS OF BROKEN GLASS. Her novel VILLA DEL SOL was awarded the 2018 Book Prize in Literary Fiction by the Independent Publishers of New England. Her latest novel, I WISH I HAD A RIVER, was published in October 2022.