The Memory Book

Lara Avery

A high-achieving high school senior named Sammie McCoy is diagnosed with a rare, degenerative genetic disease that will steadily erode her memory and eventually take her life. Determined not to let the diagnosis define her, she starts keeping a journal—the titular memory book—to capture everything she doesn't want to forget, including a budding romance, a fractured friendship, and her fierce ambitions. Told through diary entries and contributions from family and friends, it's a bittersweet coming-of-age story about living fully even when time is limited.