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The Memories I Keep
Paperback
Publisher Price: $13.99
Publisher: Amanda Wertz
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Memories I Keep is a tender, emotional young adult novel about first love, traumatic brain injury, survivor's guilt, friendship, and the memories that remain when everything else changes.
Fifteen-year-old Amy never imagines that one painful argument with her best friend, Diego, will become the last normal moment they share. The next morning, a reckless driver changes both of their lives forever.
As Diego lies in a medically induced coma, Amy returns to the hospital day after day, carrying hope, guilt, and memories she is terrified of losing. When he finally wakes, recovery is only beginning. A traumatic brain injury has taken pieces of the life they once shared, including moments that meant everything to Amy.
Diego may not remember the theater trip where they first connected, the quiet walks home after school, or the first kiss he still wishes he could recall. But somehow, even before he can speak again, he remembers her name.
As Diego relearns how to walk, talk, and navigate a world that suddenly feels unfamiliar, Amy becomes the keeper of the memories he can no longer access on his own. Their bond changes, deepens, and survives in ways neither of them could have imagined.
Inspired by true events and told through fiction, The Memories I Keep explores the complicated aftermath of trauma, the weight of survivor's guilt, and the extraordinary ways love and friendship can endure even when memory does not.
Heartbreaking, hopeful, and deeply personal, this coming-of-age story is for readers who love emotional YA fiction about healing, first love, friendship after tragedy, and the moments that shape us forever.
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