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A Small Memory
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $31.99
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
There are many great portrayals of male devotion in fiction... but it's rare for such a dynamic to be treated as a novel's primary subject... A Small Memory is a lovely complement to the canon of male friendships. - Independent Book Review
A moving novel about tragedy and the persistence of friendship. - Kirkus Reviews
A Small Memory is a tender story about the many forms friendship can take after life changes it. - Literary Titan
Memories can sustain a friendship...or destroy it.
Summer, 1975. Eighteen-year-old Mike Youngstown and his best friend, Ted, take jobs as live-in counselors at a group home in their Ohio hometown, one last summer before college, basketball, and the rest of their lives. Then one violent night changes everything.
Ted is brutally attacked by a resident and left in a coma. When he finally wakes, the nicknames, the shared dreams, every memory of his old life and of Mike, are gone, and his future is changed forever. Mike is left with a stranger in his best friend's body, and a question he can't stop asking: Why wasn't I there?
Quiet and emotionally resonant, A Small Memory is a novel about friendship tested by trauma, the weight of responsibility, and the long work of forgiveness. For readers who believe the deepest love stories are sometimes about friends, it asks: Who are we when the past is gone, and who will we be if it returns?
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