What I Remember Most
Cathy Lamb, 2014
Kensington Publishing
486 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780758295064
Summary
In a new novel rich in grace, warmth, and courage, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb tells of one woman's journey of reinvention in the wake of deep betrayall.
Grenadine Scotch Wild has only vague memories of the parents she last saw when she was six years old, but she's never forgotten their final, panicked words to her, "Run, Grenadine, run!" The mystery of their disappearance is just one more frayed strand in a life that has lately begun to unravel completely.
One year into her rocky marriage to Covey, a well known investor, he's arrested for fraud and embezzlement. Grenadine, now a successful collage artist and painter, is facing jail time despite her innocence.
With Covey refusing to exonerate her unless she comes back to him, Grenadine once again takes the advice given to her so long ago: she runs. This time, instead of ending up in various foster homes, Grenadine ends up living in her car, for weeks, in winter. Hiding out in a mountain town in central Oregon until the trial, she eventually finds work as a bartender and as assistant to a furniture-maker who is busy rebuilding his own life.
Still haunted by what happened to her parents, she moves into a lovely apartment above a red barn, makes true friends, and finally learns to laugh and love.
Far from everything she knew, Grenadine is granted a rare chance, as potentially liberating as it is terrifying—to face down her past, her fears, and live a life as beautiful and colorful as one of her paintings. . . (From the publisher.)