30 Must-Read Summer Books You Need in Your Beach Bag

After his partner dies, a man sets fire to every reminder of her within their shared home and flees to the opposite coast to try to start his life over. But in Val Emmich's novel, The Reminders, it's impossible to escape the past. He meets a 10-year-old who's able to recount memories in cinematic detail, and he enters a partnership with her only to relive the memories he thought he was ready to leave behind.