When Stevie finally wakes from her medically induced coma, she is panicked and scared. The hospital scenes are some of the best - but also the hardest to read. I can’t imagine what it would be like to wake up and feel three years younger than you actually are, but Derrick viscerally gives the reader a glimpse into what it might be like. (I do have to say, I love secret romances!)įor the vast majority of the book, Stevie is on a quest to figure out who she was at the time of her accident, and how that version of herself got so far away from the way she remembers herself being. In reality, she’s spending time with Nora. Stevie works at a coffee shop and often claims to be working more hours to save up to go to community college. Stevie and Nora can only meet in secret on the vast farm Nora lives on, or on occasional trips to Pittsburgh where they can be more open about their relationship. Her entire room has been scrubbed of any and all remnants of the girl she once was if she starts erasing herself, then it will be easier for everyone when she’s gone.

Any and all mementos shared between the two of them are hidden in a box in a vent, where she knows her parents would never find them. So she’s been hiding her two-year relationship to the point where she won’t even speak to Nora on the phone. Her very Catholic mom and super conservative dad would absolutely not be okay with the fact that she likes girls. When we meet Stevie at the beginning of the book, she’s living a secret life. But then Stevie has a horrible fall that erases the last two years from her memory… She has secretly been dating her girlfriend Nora for two years, and they have plans to run away together to California. It tells the story of Stevie, an Asian American girl who just graduated from high school in rural Pennsylvania. That is the premise that runs through Alyson Derrick’s debut YA novel Forget Me Not. What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember? The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.

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