{"id":1852,"date":"2008-09-03T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:43","slug":"fundamental-things-apply-as-time-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"The Fundamental Things Apply, As Time Goes By…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The title of this book brought to mind Bogey and Bacall movies, soft-filtered camera work and the song “As Time Goes By.” The topic of this compassionate, powerful book isn’t romantic nostalgia, however; You Must Remember This<\/i>, by S.T. Underdahl is about memory — the loss of it, and the things we hold onto when it’s gone.<\/p>\n

Lucy Kellogg has a good life. She has a nutty best friend named Sukie, and the coolest<\/i> Nana — they even share the same name.<\/p>\n

Nana Lucy is a world traveler, a well-dressed, hip, funny lady who puts all the other Nanas in the world to shame. She gets<\/i> Lucy, even though seventeen is years and years behind her. She sends her funny postcards every time she goes away, and her Lucy to Lucy presents are the best<\/i>. Nana Lucy knows all about Lucy’s inner life, and when Lucy falls flat on her butt at the cheer tryouts — that she didn’t really want to do in the first place, Nana knows how bad it feels. And, when Sukie makes the squad, and what was supposed to be a forever kind of friendship starts to fade, Nana Lucy understands. After all, Nana and granddaughter are closer than even Lucy and her Mom. So, it’s a horrible shock to hear that Aunt Carol says there’s something wrong with Nana Lucy. <\/p>\n

When Lucy hears the word “Alzheimer’s,” she decide she can’t take hearing any more.<\/p>\n

Not to her<\/i> Nana. This can’t be happening to her.<\/p>\n

Then, Lucy breaks one of Sukie’s cardinal rules of friendship — accidentally — and there’s no way to explain. And she’s not only losing a friend, she’s losing her closest confidant. None of this is supposed to be happening! But it is… and more than just memories are coming loose in Lucy’s life. Everything has come undone.<\/p>\n

Can Lucy remember the number one thing that she and Nana Lucy — and once upon a time, she and Sukie — share? And will it be enough to remind them of what’s important?<\/p>\n

A heartbreaking, fabulous family novel. Bring your tissues.<\/p>\n

Buy this book from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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