That You Remember

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Frank Rowan meets 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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her debut novel told from both sides of the coal industry Isabel Reddy brings to life the conflicts and undercurrents of an Appalachian mining town on the eve of disaster.</span></p>