Sign-In
Cart
Until I Forget, and After
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One woman is losing her memories. One man is losing his body. Neither of them planned on falling in love now.
Retired literature professor Josiah has ALS, a sharp mind, and a body that has begun refusing his instructions. Speaking takes work. Walking takes more. He has settled into the quiet routines of long-term care with books, poetry, and the uncomfortable knowledge that his world is getting smaller.
Then Eleanor sits down beside him.
She is a paint-splattered poet with dementia, wandering memories, strong opinions about Tennyson, and absolutely no intention of treating Josiah as though he is disappearing.
Eleanor forgets things. Josiah can no longer say all the things he wants to say.
Somehow, they understand each other anyway.
And soon there are:
Napkin poems and stolen moments,
Hallway waltzes when waltzing is probably a terrible idea,
Pudding-cup rebellions and arguments about poetry,
Two people discovering that falling in love at the end of life feels remarkably like falling in love at the beginning,
And one impossible question neither of them is quite ready to ask:
What happens when you find the person you love just as time begins taking everything else away?
Until I Forget, and After is a funny, tender, heartbreaking love story about memory, mortality, and the strange grace of being truly seen.
Perfect for readers who loved The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot and The Notebook, it is a story about two people who don't have forever-and discover that forever was never really the point.
You may cry. You will probably laugh first.
Because some love stories begin at the end.
Also from
Quinn, Beatrix
The Age of Diagnosis Exercises: Practical Guide to Suzanne O'Sullivan Teachings
Quinn, Beatrix
Paperback
Also in
Romance
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, Book 2)
Kimberly Lemming
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover