I judged a book by it's cover and picked up Val Emmich's novel called The Reminders. The cover was bright yellow so I liked it. The story involves a girl who has a condition called HSAM (highly superior autobiographical memory). The girl is named Joan and she can remember what day a friend of hers came to dinner and what he talked about. All this information is highly comforting to Gavin. Gavin is a friend of her father and is mourning the loss of this friend. Because of his grief he is making some poor choices. Joan helps him through his grief and he helps Joan accept the changes in her life too. Reading this I assumed HSAM was a fictional brain condition but it turns out to be real. Imagine your life if you could remember everything you did and said on every day of your life. Would you live your life differently?
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